United Nations
A/RES/61/69
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 January 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 90 (h)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2006
[on the report of the First Committee (A/61/394)]
61/69. Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere
and adjacent areas
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 51/45 B of 10 December 1996, 52/38 N of
9 December 1997, 53/77 Q of 4 December 1998, 54/54 L of 1 December 1999,
55/33 I of 20 November 2000, 56/24 G of 29 November 2001, 57/73 of
22 November 2002, 58/49 of 8 December 2003, 59/85 of 3 December 2004 and
60/58 of 8 December 2005,
Recalling also the adoption by the Disarmament Commission at its 1999
substantive session of a text entitled “Establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones
on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the region
concerned”, 1
Determined to pursue the total elimination of nuclear weapons,
Determined also to continue to contribute to the prevention of the proliferation
of nuclear weapons in all its aspects and to the process of general and complete
disarmament under strict and effective international control, in particular in the field
of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, with a view to
strengthening international peace and security, in accordance with the purposes and
principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the provisions on nuclear-weapon-free zones of the Final Document
of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, 2 the first special session
devoted to disarmament,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/54/42), annex I.
Resolution S-10/2.