United Nations
A/RES/58/50
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 73 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2003
[on the report of the First Committee (A/58/462)]
58/50.
Reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 55/33 D of 20 November 2000 and 57/58 and 57/59 of
22 November 2002,
Stressing the unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States, in the
Final Document of the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, to accomplish the total elimination of their
nuclear arsenals leading to nuclear disarmament, to which all States parties to the
Treaty are committed under its article VI, 1
Recognizing that disarmament and non-proliferation are essential for the
maintenance of international peace and security,
Reaffirming the necessity of strict compliance at all times and in all
circumstances by all parties with their obligations under the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 2 and the necessity of upholding their
commitments in the decisions and final documents agreed at the 1995 and 2000
Review Conferences,
Noting the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, issued at The Hague on 8 July
1996, 3
Reiterating the responsibility of the nuclear-weapon States for transparent,
verifiable and irreversible reductions in nuclear weapons leading to nuclear
disarmament,
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1
2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final
Document, vol. I (NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts I and II)), part I, section entitled “Article VI and eighth to
twelfth preambular paragraphs”, para. 15:6.
2
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.
3
A/51/218, annex; see also Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J.
Reports 1996, p. 226.
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