A/RES/55/33 3. Calls upon the parties to the Treaty, in accordance with their obligations under the Treaty, to limit the deployment of anti-ballistic missile systems, to refrain from the deployment of anti-ballistic missile systems for the defence of the territory of their country, not to provide a base for such a defence and not to transfer to other States or deploy outside their national territory anti-ballistic missile systems or their components limited by the Treaty; 4. Considers that the implementation of any measure undermining the purposes and the provisions of the Treaty also undermines global strategic stability and world peace and the promotion of further strategic nuclear arms reductions; 5. Urges all Member States to support efforts aimed at stemming the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery; 6. Supports further efforts by the international community, in the light of emerging developments, towards safeguarding the inviolability and integrity of the Treaty, which is in the strongest interest of the international community; 7. Welcomes the decision taken by the United States of America on 1 September 2000 not to authorize deployment of a national missile defence at this time, and considers that it constitutes a positive step for the preservation of strategic stability and security; 8. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Preservation of and compliance with the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems”. 69th plenary meeting 20 November 2000 C T OWARDS A NUCLEAR - WEAPON -FREE WORLD : THE NEED FOR A NEW AGENDA The General Assembly, Noting its resolutions 53/77 Y of 4 December 1998 and 54/54 G of 1 December 1999, Expressing its deep concern at the continued risk for humanity represented by the possibility that nuclear weapons could be used, Noting the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, issued at The Hague on 8 July 1996, 4 Noting also that three States continue to operate unsafeguarded nuclear facilities and have not acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 3 and concerned at the continued retention of the nuclear-weapons option by those three States, Declaring that nuclear test explosions carried out in 1998 by two of the States that have not renounced the nuclear-weapons option do not in any way confer a nuclear-weapon State status or any special status whatsoever, 4 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1996, p. 226. 3