A/RES/76/44
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 100 (i)
General and complete disarmament: nuclear-weapon-free
southern hemisphere and adjacent areas
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/444, para. 93)]
76/44.
Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 51/45 B of 10 December 1996, 52/38 N of 9 December
1997, 53/77 Q of 4 December 1998, 54/54 L of 1 December 1999, 55/33 I of
20 November 2000, 56/24 G of 29 November 2001, 57/73 of 22 November 2002,
58/49 of 8 December 2003, 59/85 of 3 December 2004, 60/58 of 8 December 2005,
61/69 of 6 December 2006, 62/35 of 5 December 2007, 63/65 of 2 December 2008,
64/44 of 2 December 2009, 65/58 of 8 December 2010, 67/55 of 3 December 2012,
69/35 of 2 December 2014, 70/45 of 7 December 2015, 71/51 of 5 December 2016,
72/45 of 4 December 2017 and 74/48 of 12 December 2019,
Recalling also the provisions on nuclear-weapon-free zones of the Final
Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, the first special
session devoted to disarmament, 1
Recalling further the adoption by the Disarmament Commission at its 1999
substantive session of a text entitled “Establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones on
the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the region concerned”, 2
Determined to pursue the total elimination of nuclear weapons,
Determined also to continue to contribute to the prevention of the proliferation
of nuclear weapons in all its aspects and to the process of general and complete
disarmament under strict and effective international control, in particular in the field
of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, with a view to
strengthening international peace and security, in accordance with the purposes and
principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
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21-18442 (E)
Resolution S-10/2.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/54/42), annex I.
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