United Nations A/RES/57/78 General Assembly Distr.: General 8 January 2003 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 66 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the First Committee (A/57/510)] 57/78. A path to the total elimination of nuclear weapons The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 49/75 H of 15 December 1994, 50/70 C of 12 December 1995, 51/45 G of 10 December 1996, 52/38 K of 9 December 1997, 53/77 U of 4 December 1998, 54/54 D of 1 December 1999, 55/33 R of 20 November 2000 and 56/24 N of 29 November 2001, Recognizing that the enhancement of international peace and security and the promotion of nuclear disarmament mutually complement and strengthen each other, Reaffirming the crucial importance of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 1 as the cornerstone of the international regime for nuclear nonproliferation and as an essential foundation for the pursuit of nuclear disarmament, and welcoming Cuba’s accession to the Treaty, Recognizing the progress made by the nuclear-weapon States in the reduction of their nuclear weapons unilaterally or through their negotiations, including the completion of the reductions of strategic offensive weapons according to the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START I) 2 and the recent signing of the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions (“the Moscow Treaty”) by the United States of America and the Russian Federation, 3 which should serve as a step for further nuclear disarmament, and the efforts for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation by the international community, Reaffirming the conviction that further advancement in nuclear disarmament will contribute to consolidating the international regime for nuclear nonproliferation, ensuring international peace and security, Welcoming the continuation of a moratorium on nuclear-weapon-test explosions or any other nuclear explosions since the recent nuclear tests, _______________ 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485. The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 16:1991 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.92.IX.1), appendix II. 3 See CD/1674. 2 02 54317

Select target paragraph3