A/RES/70/34
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 December 2015
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 97 (cc)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2015
[on the report of the First Committee (A/70/460)]
70/34.
Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General
Assembly on nuclear disarmament
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 67/39 of 3 December 2012, 68/32 of 5 December
2013 and 69/58 of 2 December 2014,
Welcoming the convening of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly
on nuclear disarmament, on 26 September 2013, and recognizing its contribution to
furthering the objective of the total elimination of nuclear weapons,
Emphasizing the importance of seeking a safer world for all and achieving
peace and security in a world without nuclear weapons,
Reaffirming that effective measures of nuclear disarmament have the highest
priority, as affirmed at the first special session of the General Assembly devoted to
disarmament,
Convinced that nuclear disarmament and the total elimination of nuclear
weapons are the only absolute guarantee against the use or threat of use of nuclear
weapons,
Acknowledging the significant contribution made by a number of countries
towards realizing the objective of nuclear disarmament by the establishment of
nuclear-weapon-free zones, as well as by voluntary renunciation of nuclear weapon
programmes or withdrawal of all nuclear weapons from their territories, and
strongly supporting the speedy establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the
Middle East,
Recalling the resolve of the Heads of State and Government, as contained in
the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 to strive for the elimination of
weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapons, and to keep all options
open for achieving this aim, including the possibility of convening an international
conference to identify ways of eliminating nuclear dangers,
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Resolution 55/2.
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