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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/54
9 January 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 80
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/51/566/Add.20)]
51/54.
Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production and Stockpiling of
Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin
Weapons and on Their Destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions relating to the complete and
effective prohibition of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and to
their destruction,
Noting with satisfaction that there are one hundred and thirty-nine
States parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons
and on Their Destruction,1 including all the permanent members of the
Security Council,
Bearing in mind its call upon all States parties to the Convention to
participate in the implementation of the recommendations of the Review
Conferences, including the exchange of information and data agreed to in the
Final Declaration of the Third Review Conference of the Parties to the
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling
of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their
Destruction,2 and to provide such information and data in conformity with
standardized procedure to the Secretary-General on an annual basis and no
later than 15 April,
1
Resolution 2826 (XXVI), annex.
2
BWC/CONF.III/23, part II.
97-76105
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