A/RES/56/24 Recalling the widespread concern about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, 1. Calls for continued efforts to strengthen the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems 1 and to preserve its integrity and validity so that it remains a cornerstone in maintaining global strategic stability and world peace and in promoting further strategic nuclear arms reductions; 2. Calls also for renewed efforts by each of the States parties to preserve and strengthen the Treaty through full and strict compliance; 3. Calls upon the parties to the Treaty, in accordance with their obligations under the Treaty, to limit the deployment of anti-ballistic missile systems, to refrain from the deployment of anti-ballistic missile systems for the defence of the territory of their country, not to provide a base for such a defence and not to transfer to other States or deploy outside their national territory anti-ballistic missile systems or their components limited by the Treaty; 4. Considers that the implementation of any measure undermining the purposes and the provisions of the Treaty also undermines global strategic stability and world peace and the promotion of further strategic nuclear arms reductions; 5. Urges all Member States to support efforts aimed at stemming the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery; 6. Supports further efforts by the international community, in the light of emerging developments, towards safeguarding the inviolability and integrity of the Treaty, which is in the strongest interest of the international community; 7. Welcomes the ongoing dialogue between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on a new strategic framework premised on openness, mutual confidence and real opportunities for cooperation, which is of paramount importance, especially in a changing security environment, and hopes that this dialogue will successfully lead to substantial reductions in offensive nuclear forces and contribute to the maintenance of international stability; 8. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “Preservation of and compliance with the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems”. 68th plenary meeting 29 November 2001 B M ISSILES The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 54/54 F of 1 December 1999 and 55/33 A of 20 November 2000, Reaffirming the role of the United Nations in the field of arms regulation and disarmament and the commitment of Member States to take concrete steps to strengthen that role, Realizing the need to promote regional and international peace and security in a world free from the scourge of war and the burden of armaments, 2