A/RES/74/43
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 98 (t)
General and complete disarmament: measures to prevent
terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 12 December 2019
[on the report of the First Committee (A/74/368)]
74/43.
Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons
of mass destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 73/55 of 5 December 2018,
Recognizing the determination of the international community to combat
terrorism, as evidenced in relevant General Assembly and Security Council
resolutions,
Deeply concerned by the growing risk of linkages between terrorism and
weapons of mass destruction, and in particular by the fact that terrorists may seek to
acquire weapons of mass destruction,
Cognizant of the steps taken by States to implement Security Council resolut ion
1540 (2004) of 28 April 2004 on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction,
Taking note of Security Council resolution 2325 (2016) of 15 December 2016
on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,
Welcoming the entry into force on 7 July 2007 of the International Convention
for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, 1
Welcoming also the adoption, by consensus, of amendments to strengthen the
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material 2 by the International
Atomic Energy Agency on 8 July 2005, and their entry into force on 8 May 2016,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2445, No. 44004.
Ibid., vol. 1456, No. 24631.
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