Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament
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report submitted by the Secretary-General pursuant to resolution 69/58,2 and
requests the Secretary-General to forward this report to the Conference on
Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission for their early consideration;
8.
Welcomes the commemoration and promotion of 26 September as the
International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons devoted to
furthering this objective;
9.
Expresses its appreciation to Member States, the United Nations system
and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, academia,
parliamentarians, the mass media and individuals that developed activities in
promotion of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons;
10. Requests the President of the General Assembly to organize, on
26 September every year, a one-day high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly to
commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of
Nuclear Weapons;
11. Decides that the aforementioned high-level plenary meeting shall be held
with the participation of Member and observer States, represented at the highest
possible level, as well as with the participation of the President of the General
Assembly and the Secretary-General;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to undertake all arrangements necessary
to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of
Nuclear Weapons, including through the United Nations Offices at Geneva and
Vienna, as well as the United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament;
13. Calls upon Member States, the United Nations system and civil society,
including non-governmental organizations, academia, parliamentarians, the mass
media and individuals, to commemorate and promote the International Day for the
Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons through all means of educational and public
awareness-raising activities about the threat posed to humanity by nuclear weapons
and the necessity for their total elimination in order to mobilize international efforts
towards achieving the common goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world;
14. Requests the Secretary-General to seek the views of Member States with
regard to achieving the objective of the total elimination of nuclear weapons, in
particular on the elements of a comprehensive convention on nuclear weapons, and
to submit a report thereon to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session, and
also to transmit the report to the Conference on Disarmament;
15. Also requests the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of
the present resolution to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session;
16. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-first session,
under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled
“Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear
disarmament”.
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7 December 2015
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