A/RES/49/77 Page 7 Reaffirming the great importance of increasing security and stability in all regions through appropriate measures to strengthen international peace and security, Realizing with deep concern, however, that tensions in some regions rise and that even violent armed conflicts have erupted and continue, in some cases, despite all peacemaking and peace-keeping efforts, Emphasizing that confidence-building measures, especially when applied in a comprehensive manner, can be conducive to achieving structures of security based on cooperation and openness and thus contribute to the wider objective of the renunciation of the threat or use of force, 1. Stresses the need for the development and implementation of confidence-building measures as a concrete means to facilitate the disarmament and arms limitation process and to improve the prospects for the peaceful settlement of disputes, thus contributing to maintaining and enhancing regional and international peace and security; 2. Recommends the guidelines for appropriate types of confidencebuilding measures to all States for implementation, taking fully into account the specific political, military and other conditions prevailing in a region; 3. Also recommends to all States and regions that have already started to implement confidence-building measures to pursue further and strengthen this process; 4. Appeals to all States to consider the widest possible use of confidence-building measures in their international relations, including bilateral, regional and global activities, as an important step towards prevention of conflict and, in times of political tension and crisis, as an instrument for peaceful settlement of conflicts; 5. Calls upon, in particular, all States in whose regions military tensions exist, or armed conflicts occur, to make the best possible use of confidence-building measures, among other appropriate activities and if needed in cooperation with other States, to ease tensions and to contribute to peacemaking and peace-building; 6. Invites the Secretary-General to continue to collect relevant information from all Member States; 7. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first session an item entitled "Confidence-building measures". 90th plenary meeting 15 December 1994