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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/87
13 January 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 156
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/48/688)]
48/87.
Rationalization of the work of the Disarmament and
International Security Committee (First Committee)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 47/54 G of 8 April 1993, particularly paragraph
2 thereof, in which the Chairman of the First Committee was requested to
continue his consultations on the further rationalization of the work and the
effective functioning of the Committee, taking into account all the views and
proposals presented to the Committee, including those related to the thematic
clustering of agenda items,
Recalling also the ongoing efforts of the General Assembly aimed at
revitalizing its work, and recalling further its resolution 47/233 of 17
August 1993,
Mindful that the United Nations has a central role and responsibility in
the sphere of disarmament and international security,
Recalling the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General
Assembly, 1/ the first special session devoted to disarmament, and the
objectives and priorities set out therein, as well as the progress achieved in
arms control and disarmament towards these ends,
Encouraged by the changed political climate in the post-cold-war era,
which is conducive to further bilateral, regional and multilateral efforts in
disarmament, and aware of the consequent need to adjust the work of the United
Nations, including that concerned with disarmament and international security,
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Resolution S-10/2.
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