A/RES/65/59
United Nations
Distr.: General
13 January 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 97 (dd)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2010
[on the report of the First Committee (A/65/410)]
65/59. Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the
implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 64/57 of 2 December 2009,
Reiterating its grave concern at the danger to humanity posed by the
possibility that nuclear weapons could be used,
Reaffirming that nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation are
mutually reinforcing processes requiring urgent irreversible progress on both fronts,
Recalling the decisions entitled “Strengthening the review process for the
Treaty”, “Principles and objectives for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament”
and “Extension of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” and the
resolution on the Middle East, all of which were adopted at the 1995 Review and
Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, 1 and the final document of the 2000 Review Conference of the
Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 2
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Recalling in particular the unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon
States to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, leading to
nuclear disarmament, in accordance with commitments made under article VI of the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 3
2F
Recognizing the continued vital importance of the early entry into force of the
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 4 to the advancement of nuclear disarmament
and nuclear non-proliferation objectives, and welcoming the recent ratification of
the Treaty by the Marshall Islands, the Central African Republic and Trinidad and
Tobago,
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1
See 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I) and Corr.2), annex.
2
2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final
Document, vols. I–III (NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts I–IV)).
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.
4
See resolution 50/245.
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