A/RES/55/33 5. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session; 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Relationship between disarmament and development”. 69th plenary meeting 20 November 2000 M C ONVENING OF THE FOURTH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE G ENERAL ASSEMBLY DEVOTED TO DISARMAMENT The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 49/75 I of 15 December 1994, 50/70 F of 12 December 1995, 51/45 C of 10 December 1996, 52/38 F of 9 December 1997, 53/77 AA of 4 December 1998 and 54/54 U of 1 December 1999, Recalling also that, there being a consensus to do so in each case, three special sessions of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament were held in 1978, 1982 and 1988, respectively, Bearing in mind the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, 31 adopted by consensus at the first special session devoted to disarmament, which included the Declaration, the Programme of Action and the Machinery for disarmament, Bearing in mind also the objective of general and complete disarmament under effective international control, Taking note of paragraph 145 of the Final Document of the Twelfth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Durban, South Africa, from 29 August to 3 September 1998,42 which supported the convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, which would offer an opportunity to review, from a perspective more in tune with the current international situation, the most critical aspects of the process of disarmament and to mobilize the international community and public opinion in favour of the elimination of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction and of the control and reduction of conventional weapons, Taking note also of the report of the 1999 substantive session of the Disarmament Commission 46 and of the fact that no consensus was reached on the item entitled “Fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament”, Desiring to build upon the substantive exchange of views on the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament during the 1999 substantive session of the Disarmament Commission, Reiterating its conviction that a special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament can set the future course of action in the field of disarmament, arms control and related international security matters, 46 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/54/42). 19

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