A/RES/57/84
Reiterating the highest priority accorded to nuclear disarmament in the Final
Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly1 and by the
international community,
Recalling that in the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on
the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons 2 it is stated that there exists an
obligation for all States to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion
negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and
effective international control,
Recalling also the call in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 3 to seek
to eliminate the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction and the resolve to
strive for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear
weapons, including the possibility of convening an international conference to
identify ways of eliminating nuclear dangers,
1.
Calls for a review of nuclear doctrines and, in this context, immediate
and urgent steps to reduce the risks of unintentional and accidental use of nuclear
weapons;
2.
Requests the five nuclear-weapon States to take measures towards the
implementation of paragraph 1 of the present resolution;
3.
Calls upon Member States to take the necessary measures to prevent the
proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects and to promote nuclear
disarmament, with the objective of eliminating nuclear weapons;
4.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
paragraph 5 of General Assembly resolution 56/24 C of 29 November 2001; 4
5.
Requests the Secretary-General to intensify efforts and support initiatives
that would contribute towards the full implementation of the seven
recommendations identified in the report of the Advisory Board on Disarmament
Matters that would significantly reduce the risk of nuclear war,5 and also to continue
to encourage Member States to endeavour to create conditions that would allow the
emergence of an international consensus to hold an international conference as
proposed in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 to identify ways of
eliminating nuclear dangers, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its
fifty-eighth session;
6.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session
the item entitled “Reducing nuclear danger”.
57th plenary meeting
22 November 2002
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1
Resolution S-10/2.
A/51/218, annex; see also Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J.
Reports 1996, p. 226.
3
See resolution 55/2.
4
A/57/401.
5
See A/56/400, para. 3.
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