A/RES/70/36
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 December 2015
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 97 (t)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2015
[on the report of the First Committee (A/70/460)]
70/36.
Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons
of mass destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 69/39 of 2 December 2014,
Recognizing the determination of the international community to combat
terrorism, as evidenced in relevant General Assembly and Security Council
resolutions,
Deeply concerned by the growing risk of linkages between terrorism and
weapons of mass destruction, and in particular by the fact that terrorists may seek to
acquire weapons of mass destruction,
Cognizant of the steps taken by States to implement Security Council
resolution 1540 (2004) on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,
adopted on 28 April 2004,
Welcoming the entry into force on 7 July 2007 of the International Convention
for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism,1
Welcoming also the adoption, by consensus, of amendments to strengthen the
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material 2 by the International
Atomic Energy Agency on 8 July 2005,
Noting the support expressed in the Final Document of the Sixteenth
Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, which was
held in Tehran from 26 to 31 August 2012,3 for measures to prevent terrorists from
acquiring weapons of mass destruction,
Noting also that the Group of Eight, the European Union, the Regional Forum
of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and others have taken into account in
their deliberations the dangers posed by the likely acquisition by terrorists of
weapons of mass destruction and the need for international cooperation in
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2445, No. 44004.
Ibid., vol. 1456, No. 24631.
3
A/67/506-S/2012/752, annex I.
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