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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/50/78
11 January 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 78
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/50/598) and A/50/L.55]
50/78.
Final text of the African Nuclear-WeaponFree Zone Treaty (the Pelindaba Treaty)
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind the Declaration on the Denuclearization of Africa 1/
adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization
of African Unity at its first ordinary session, held at Cairo from 17 to 21
July 1964, in which they solemnly declare their readiness to undertake,
through an international agreement to be concluded under United Nations
auspices, not to manufacture or acquire control of atomic weapons,
Recalling its resolution 2033 (XX) of 3 December 1965, in which it
endorsed the above-mentioned Declaration and expressed the hope that the
African States would initiate studies, as they deemed appropriate, with a view
to implementing the denuclearization of Africa, and take the necessary
measures, through the Organization of African Unity, to achieve that end,
Recalling also article VII of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, 2/ which acknowledges the right of any group of States to
conclude regional treaties in order to ensure the total absence of nuclear
weapons in their respective territories,
Bearing in mind paragraph 60 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special
Session of the General Assembly, 3/ the first special session devoted to
1/
Official Records of the General Assembly, Twentieth Session, Annexes,
agenda item 105, document A/5975.
2/
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.
3/
Resolution S-10/2.
96-76111
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