United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/59/106
Distr.: General
16 December 2004
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 68
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2004
[on the report of the First Committee (A/59/462)]
59/106. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind its relevant resolutions,
Taking note of the relevant resolutions adopted by the General Conference of
the International Atomic Energy Agency, the latest of which is resolution
GC(48)/RES/16, adopted on 24 September 2004, 1
Cognizant that the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the region of the Middle
East would pose a serious threat to international peace and security,
Mindful of the immediate need for placing all nuclear facilities in the region of
the Middle East under full-scope safeguards of the International Atomic Energy
Agency,
Recalling the decision on principles and objectives for nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament adopted by the 1995 Review and Extension
Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
on 11 May 1995, 2 in which the Conference urged universal adherence to the Treaty
as an urgent priority and called upon all States not yet parties to the Treaty to accede
to it at the earliest date, particularly those States that operate unsafeguarded nuclear
facilities,
Recognizing with satisfaction that, in the Final Document of the 2000 Review
Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, the Conference undertook to make determined efforts towards the
achievement of the goal of universality of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, called upon those remaining States not parties to the Treaty to
accede to it, thereby accepting an international legally binding commitment not to
acquire nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices and to accept International
Atomic Energy Agency safeguards on all their nuclear activities, and underlined the
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1
See International Atomic Energy Agency, Resolutions and Other Decisions of the General Conference,
Forty-eighth Regular Session, 20–24 September 2004 (GC(48)/RES/DEC(2004)).
2
1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I) and Corr.2), annex, decision 2.
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