A/RES/58/40 Agency at its forty-fifth regular session, 6 in which States shipping radioactive materials are invited to provide, as appropriate, assurances to concerned States, upon their request, that the national regulations of the shipping State take into account the Agency’s transport regulations and to provide them with relevant information relating to the shipment of such materials; the information provided should in no case be contradictory to the measures of physical security and safety, Welcoming the adoption at Vienna, on 5 September 1997, of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, 7 as recommended by the participants at the Summit on Nuclear Safety and Security, Noting with satisfaction that the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management entered into force on 18 June 2001, Noting that the first Review Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management was convened in Vienna from 3 to 14 November 2003, Desirous of promoting the implementation of paragraph 76 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, 8 the first special session devoted to disarmament, 1. Takes note of the part of the report of the Conference on Disarmament relating to a future convention on the prohibition of radiological weapons; 9 2. Expresses grave concern regarding any use of nuclear wastes that would constitute radiological warfare and have grave implications for the national security of all States; Calls upon all States to take appropriate measures with a view to 3. preventing any dumping of nuclear or radioactive wastes that would infringe upon the sovereignty of States; Requests the Conference on Disarmament to take into account, in the 4. negotiations for a convention on the prohibition of radiological weapons, radioactive wastes as part of the scope of such a convention; Also requests the Conference on Disarmament to intensify efforts 5. towards an early conclusion of such a convention and to include in its report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session the progress recorded in the negotiations on this subject; Takes note of resolution CM/Res.1356 (LIV) of 1991, adopted by the 6. Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, 10 on the Bamako Convention on the Ban on the Import of Hazardous Wastes into Africa and on the Control of Their Transboundary Movements within Africa; _______________ 6 See International Atomic Energy Agency, Resolutions and Other Decisions of the General Conference, Forty-fifth Regular Session, 17–21 September 2001 (GC(45)/RES/DEC(2001)). 7 See GOV/INF/821-GC(41)/INF/12 and Corr.1, appendix 1. 8 Resolution S-10/2. 9 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/54/27), chap. III, sect. E. 10 See A/46/390, annex I. 2