United Nations A/RES/55/121* General Assembly Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 82 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A/55/568)] 55/121. Effects of atomic radiation The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 913 (X) of 3 December 1955, by which it established the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, and its subsequent resolutions on the subject, including resolution 54/66 of 6 December 1999, in which, inter alia, it requested the Scientific Committee to continue its work, Taking note with appreciation of the work of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and of the release of its extensive report, 1 Reaffirming the desirability of the Scientific Committee continuing its work, Concerned about the potentially harmful effects on present and future generations resulting from the levels of radiation to which mankind and the environment are exposed, Noting the views expressed by Member States at its fifty-fifth session with regard to the work of the Scientific Committee, Conscious of the continuing need to examine and compile information about atomic and ionizing radiation and to analyse its effects on mankind and the environment, 1. Commends the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation for the valuable contribution it has been making in the course of the past forty-five years, since its inception, to wider knowledge and understanding of the levels, effects and risks of ionizing radiation, and for fulfilling its original mandate with scientific authority and independence of judgement; 2. Takes note with appreciation of the work of the Scientific Committee and of the release of its extensive report, entitled Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation: United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation – Report to the General Assembly, with Scientific Annexes, 2 which provides the *Reissued for technical reasons. 1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 46 (A/55/46). 2 United Nations publications, Sales Nos. E.00.IX.3 and E.00.IX.4. 00 56665 Distr.: General 20 June 2001