A/RES/65/96
United Nations
Distr.: General
20 January 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 49
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2010
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/65/420)]
65/96. 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, in which, inter alia, it requested the Scientific
Committee to continue 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,
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, and conscious also of the increased volume, complexity and diversity
of that information,
Taking note with appreciation of the work of the Scientific Committee, and
noting the letters from its Chair to the President of the General Assembly 1 as well as
the report on its fifty-seventh session, 2
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Reaffirming the desirability of the Scientific Committee continuing its work, and
welcoming the increased commitment of States members of the Scientific Committee,
Emphasizing the vital need for sufficient, assured and predictable funding, as
well as efficient management, of the work of the secretariat of the Scientific
Committee to arrange the annual sessions and coordinate the development of
documents based on scientific reviews from Member States of the sources of
ionizing radiation and its effects on human health and the environment,
Acknowledging that Belarus, Finland, Pakistan, the Republic of Korea, Spain
and Ukraine had informed the President of the General Assembly before 28 February
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A/64/223 and A/64/796.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 46 (A/65/46 and Add.1).
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