United Nations
A/RES/60/92
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 100
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005
[on the report of the First Committee (A/60/466)]
60/92.
The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind its relevant resolutions,
Taking note of the relevant resolutions adopted by the General Conference of
the International Atomic Energy Agency, the latest of which is resolution
GC(49)/RES/15 adopted on 30 September 2005, 1
Cognizant that the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the region of the Middle
East would pose a serious threat to international peace and security,
Mindful of the immediate need for placing all nuclear facilities in the region of
the Middle East under full-scope safeguards of the Agency,
Recalling the decision on principles and objectives for nuclear non-proliferation
and disarmament adopted by the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the
Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons on 11 May 1995, 2
in which the Conference urged universal adherence to the Treaty 3 as an urgent
priority and called upon all States not yet parties to the Treaty to accede to it at the
earliest date, particularly those States that operate unsafeguarded nuclear facilities,
Recognizing with satisfaction that, in the Final Document of the 2000 Review
Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, the Conference undertook to make determined efforts towards the
achievement of the goal of universality of the Treaty, called upon those remaining
States not parties to the Treaty to accede to it, thereby accepting an international
legally binding commitment not to acquire nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive
devices and to accept Agency safeguards on all their nuclear activities, and
underlined the necessity of universal adherence to the Treaty and of strict
compliance by all parties with their obligations under the Treaty, 4
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1
See International Atomic Energy Agency, Resolutions and Other Decisions of the General Conference,
Forty-ninth Regular Session, 26–30 September 2005 (GC(49)/RES/DEC(2005)).
2
See 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.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.
4
See 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 IX”.
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