A/RES/73/70
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 101 (r)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 5 December 2018
[on the report of the First Committee (A/73/510 and A/73/510/Corr.1)]
73/70.
Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the
implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 1 (I) of 24 January 1946, 71/54 of 5 December 2016
and 72/39 of 4 December 2017,
Noting the twentieth anniversary of the launch of the New Agenda Coalition and
the joint declaration outlining a new agenda for disarmament, adopted in Dublin on
9 June 1998, 1
Recalling its resolution 72/243 of 22 December 2017, in which it decided to
hold a high-level plenary meeting in 2018, the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit, in
honour of the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, welcoming the political
declaration adopted by the Summit on 24 September 2018, 2 in which it recalled the
firm plea made by Nelson Mandela in favour of the total elimination of nuclear
weapons, and underscoring commitments towards that goal,
Welcoming the launch of the Secretary-General’s disarmament agenda, Securing
Our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament, in Geneva on 24 May 2018,
Reiterating its grave concern at the danger to humanity posed by nuclear
weapons, which should inform all deliberations, decisions and actions relating to
nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation,
Recalling the expression of deep concern by the 2010 Review Conference of
the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the
catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, and its
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A/53/138, annex.
Resolution 73/1.
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