United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/62/34
Distr.: General
10 January 2008
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 98 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2007
[on the report of the First Committee (A/62/391)]
62/34. Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind resolutions CM/Res.1153 (XLVIII) of 1988 1 and
CM/Res.1225 (L) of 1989, 2 adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Organization
of African Unity, concerning the dumping of nuclear and industrial wastes in Africa,
Welcoming resolution GC(XXXIV)/RES/530 establishing a Code of Practice
on the International Transboundary Movement of Radioactive Waste, adopted on
21 September 1990 by the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy
Agency at its thirty-fourth regular session, 3
Taking note of the commitment by the participants in the Summit on Nuclear
Safety and Security, held in Moscow on 19 and 20 April 1996, to ban the dumping
at sea of radioactive wastes, 4
Considering its resolution 2602 C (XXIV) of 16 December 1969, in which it
requested the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, 5 inter alia, to consider
effective methods of control against the use of radiological methods of warfare,
Aware of the potential hazards underlying any use of radioactive wastes that
would constitute radiological warfare and its implications for regional and
international security, in particular for the security of developing countries,
Recalling all its resolutions on the matter since its forty-third session in 1988,
including its resolution 51/45 J of 10 December 1996,
Also recalling resolution GC(45)/RES/10 adopted by consensus on
21 September 2001 by the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy
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1
See A/43/398, annex I.
See A/44/603, annex I.
3
See International Atomic Energy Agency, Resolutions and Other Decisions of the General Conference,
Thirty-fourth Regular Session, 17–21 September 1990 (GC(XXXIV)/RESOLUTIONS (1990)).
4
A/51/131, annex I, para. 20.
5
The Conference of the Committee on Disarmament became the Committee on Disarmament as from the
tenth special session of the General Assembly. The Committee on Disarmament was redesignated the
Conference on Disarmament as from 7 February 1984.
2
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