A/RES/59/77
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 December 2004
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 65
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2004
[on the report of the First Committee (A/59/459)]
59/77.
Nuclear disarmament
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 49/75 E of 15 December 1994 on a step-by-step
reduction of the nuclear threat, and its resolutions 50/70 P of 12 December 1995,
51/45 O of 10 December 1996, 52/38 L of 9 December 1997, 53/77 X of
4 December 1998, 54/54 P of 1 December 1999, 55/33 T of 20 November 2000,
56/24 R of 29 November 2001, 57/79 of 22 November 2002 and 58/56 of
8 December 2003 on nuclear disarmament,
Reaffirming the commitment of the international community to the goal of the
total elimination of nuclear weapons and the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free
world,
Bearing in mind that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and
on Their Destruction of 1972 1 and the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their
Destruction of 1993 2 have already established legal regimes on the complete
prohibition of biological and chemical weapons, respectively, and determined to
achieve a nuclear weapons convention on the prohibition of the development,
testing, production, stockpiling, loan, transfer, use and threat of use of nuclear
weapons and on their destruction, and to conclude such an international convention
at an early date,
Recognizing that there now exist conditions for the establishment of a world
free of nuclear weapons, and stressing the need to take concrete practical steps
towards achieving this goal,
Bearing in mind paragraph 50 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special
Session of the General Assembly, 3 the first special session devoted to disarmament,
calling for the urgent negotiation of agreements for the cessation of the qualitative
improvement and development of nuclear-weapon systems, and for a comprehensive
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1
Resolution 2826 (XXVI), annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1974, No. 33757.
3
Resolution S-10/2.
2
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