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10. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure full provision to the Disarmament Commission and
its subsidiary bodies of interpretation and translation facilities in the official languages and to assign, as
a matter of priority, all the necessary resources and services, including verbatim records, to that end;
11. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Report
of the Disarmament Commission”.
79th plenary meeting
4 December 1998
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REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Conference on Disarmament,4
Convinced that the Conference on Disarmament, as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating
forum of the international community, has the primary role in substantive negotiations on priority
questions of disarmament,
Considering, in this respect, that the present international climate should give additional impetus to
multilateral negotiations with the aim of reaching concrete agreements,
Recognizing that the Conference on Disarmament has a number of urgent and important issues for
negotiations,
1. Reaffirms the role of the Conference on Disarmament as the single multilateral disarmament
negotiating forum of the international community;
2. Welcomes the determination of the Conference on Disarmament to fulfil that role in the light of
the evolving international situation, with a view to making early substantive progress on priority items of
its agenda;
3. Also welcomes the decisions of the Conference on Disarmament to establish an Ad Hoc
Committee under item 4 of its agenda entitled “Effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclearweapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons”, to negotiate with a view to reaching
agreement on effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or
threat of use of nuclear weapons, which could take the form of an internationally legally binding
instrument, as well as an Ad Hoc Committee under item 1 of its agenda entitled “Cessation of the nuclear
arms race and nuclear disarmament”, to negotiate, on the basis of the report of the Special Coordinator5
and the mandate contained therein, a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively
verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive
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