A/RES/69/81
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 December 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 102
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 December 2014
[on the report of the First Committee (A/69/446)]
69/81.
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
The General Assembly,
Reiterating that the cessation of nuclear-weapon test explosions or any other
nuclear explosions constitutes an effective nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation measure, and convinced that this is a meaningful step in the realization
of a systematic process for achieving nuclear disarmament,
Recalling that the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, adopted by the
General Assembly by its resolution 50/245 of 10 September 1996, was opened for
signature on 24 September 1996,
Stressing that a universal and effectively verifiable Treaty constitutes a
fundamental instrument in the field of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
and that, after more than 15 years, its entry into force is more urgent than ever
before,
Encouraged by the signing of the Treaty by 183 States, including 41 of the 44
whose ratification is needed for its entry into force, and welcoming the ratification
of the Treaty by 163 States, including 36 of the 44 whose ratification is needed for
its entry into force, among which there are 3 nuclear-weapon States,
Recalling its resolution 68/68 of 5 December 2013,
Welcoming the adoption by consensus of the conclusions and recommendations
for follow-on actions of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on
the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1 in which the Conference, inter alia,
reaffirmed the vital importance of the entry into force of the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty as a core element of the international nuclear disarmament
and non-proliferation regime and included specific actions to be taken in support of
the entry into force of the Treaty,
Welcoming also the Final Declaration adopted by the eighth Conference on
Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty,
held in New York on 27 September 2013, convened pursuant to article XIV of the
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1
2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final
Document, vol. I (NPT/CONF.2010/50 (Vol. I)), part I, Conclusions and recommendations for follow-on
actions.
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