United Nations
A/RES/58/48
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 73 (w)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2003
[on the report of the First Committee (A/58/462)]
58/48.
Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of
mass destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 57/83 of 22 November 2002,
Recognizing the determination of the international community to combat
terrorism, as evident 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,
Noting the support expressed in the Final Document of the Thirteenth
Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, which was
held in Kuala Lumpur from 20 to 25 February 2003, 1 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 acquisition by terrorists of weapons of
mass destruction, and the need for international cooperation in combating it,
Acknowledging the consideration of issues relating to terrorism and weapons
of mass destruction by the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, 2
Taking note of resolution GC(47)/RES/8, adopted on 19 September 2003 by
the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency at its
forty-seventh regular session, 3 and the setting up of an Advisory Group on Security
in the Agency to advise the Director General on the Agency’s activities relating to
nuclear security,
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1
A/57/759-S/2003/332, annex I.
See A/57/335.
3
See International Atomic Energy Agency, Resolutions and Other Decisions of the General Conference,
Forty-seventh Regular Session, 15–19 September 2003 (GC(47)/RES/DEC (2003)).
2
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