A/RES/70/56
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 December 2015
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 97 (k)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2015
[on the report of the First Committee (A/70/460)]
70/56.
Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International
Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of
nuclear weapons
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 49/75 K of 15 December 1994, 51/45 M of 10 December
1996, 52/38 O of 9 December 1997, 53/77 W of 4 December 1998, 54/54 Q of
1 December 1999, 55/33 X of 20 November 2000, 56/24 S of 29 November 2001,
57/85 of 22 November 2002, 58/46 of 8 December 2003, 59/83 of 3 December
2004, 60/76 of 8 December 2005, 61/83 of 6 December 2006, 62/39 of 5 December
2007, 63/49 of 2 December 2008, 64/55 of 2 December 2009, 65/76 of 8 December
2010, 66/46 of 2 December 2011, 67/33 of 3 December 2012, 68/42 of 5 December
2013 and 69/43 of 2 December 2014,
Convinced that the continuing existence of nuclear weapons poses a threat to
humanity and all life on Earth, and recognizing that the only defence against a
nuclear catastrophe is the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the certainty that
they will never be produced again,
Reaffirming the commitment of the international community to the realization
of the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world through the total elimination of nuclear
weapons,
Mindful of the solemn obligations of States parties, undertaken in article VI of
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1 particularly to pursue
negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear
arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament,
Recalling the principles and objectives for nuclear non-proliferation and
disarmament adopted at the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 2 the unequivocal
commitment of nuclear-weapon States to accomplish the total elimination of their
nuclear arsenals leading to nuclear disarmament, agreed at the 2000 Review
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.
1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I) and Corr.2), annex, decision 2.
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