A/RES/68/53
Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes
Agency at its forty-fifth regular session, in which States shipping radioactive
materials are invited to provide, as appropriate, assurances to concerned States,
upon their request, that the national regulations of the shipping State take into
account the Agency’s transport regulations and to provide them with relevant
information relating to the shipment of such materials; with the information
provided being in no case contradictory to the measures of physical security and
safety,
Welcoming the adoption, in Vienna on 5 September 1997, of the Joint
Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of
Radioactive Waste Management, 5 as recommended by the participants in the
Summit on Nuclear Safety and Security,
Welcoming also the convening by the International Atomic Energy Agency
of the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety, in Vienna from 20 to 24 June
2011, and its outcome, the Declaration of the International Atomic Energy
Agency Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety, as well as the Action Plan on
Nuclear Safety, endorsed by the General Conference of the Agency at its fifty-fifth
regular session,
Noting the convening by the Secretary-General of the high-level meeting on
nuclear safety and security, in New York on 22 September 2011,
Noting with satisfaction that the Joint Convention entered into force on
18 June 2001,
Noting that the first Review Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Joint
Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive
Waste Management was convened in Vienna from 3 to 14 November 2003,
Desirous of promoting the implementation of paragraph 76 of the Final
Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, the first special
session devoted to disarmament, 6
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Takes note of the part of the report of the Conference on Disarmament
relating to radiological weapons; 7
2.
Also takes note of the Declaration of the International Atomic Energy
Agency Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety, the Action Plan on Nuclear
Safety and the high-level meeting on nuclear safety and security convened by the
Secretary-General;
3.
Expresses grave concern regarding any use of nuclear wastes that would
constitute radiological warfare and have grave implications for the national security
of all States;
4.
Calls upon all States to take appropriate measures with a view to
preventing any dumping of nuclear or radioactive wastes that would infringe upon
the sovereignty of States;
5.
Requests the Conference on Disarmament to take into account, in the
negotiations for a convention on the prohibition of radiological weapons,
radioactive wastes as part of the scope of such a convention;
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