A/RES/59/89 Convinced that endeavours by countries to promote regional disarmament, taking into account the specific characteristics of each region and in accordance with the principle of undiminished security at the lowest level of armaments, would enhance the security of all States and would thus contribute to international peace and security by reducing the risk of regional conflicts, Stresses that sustained efforts are needed, within the framework of the 1. Conference on Disarmament and under the umbrella of the United Nations, to make progress on the entire range of disarmament issues; Affirms that global and regional approaches to disarmament complement 2. each other and should therefore be pursued simultaneously to promote regional and international peace and security; Calls upon States to conclude agreements, wherever possible, for nuclear 3. non-proliferation, disarmament and confidence-building measures at the regional and subregional levels; Welcomes the initiatives towards disarmament, nuclear non-proliferation 4. and security undertaken by some countries at the regional and subregional levels; 5. Supports and encourages efforts aimed at promoting confidence-building measures at the regional and subregional levels to ease regional tensions and to further disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation measures at the regional and subregional levels; Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session the 6. item entitled “Regional disarmament”. 66th plenary meeting 3 December 2004 2