United Nations
A/RES/67/34
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 January 2013
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 94 (x)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2012
[on the report of the First Committee (A/67/409)]
67/34. Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the
implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 66/40 of 2 December 2011,
Reiterating its grave concern at the danger to humanity posed by the
possibility that nuclear weapons could be used,
Recalling the expression of deep concern by the 2010 Review Conference of
the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the
catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, 1
Reaffirming that nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation are
mutually reinforcing processes requiring urgent irreversible progress on both fronts,
Recalling the decisions entitled “Strengthening the review process for the
Treaty”, “Principles and objectives for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament”
and “Extension of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” and the
resolution on the Middle East, all of which were adopted at the 1995 Review and
Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, 2 and the Final Document of the 2000 3 and the 2010 4 Review
Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons,
Recalling in particular the unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon
States to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, leading to
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1
See 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,
Final Document, vol. I (NPT/CONF.2010/50 (Vol. I)), part I, Conclusions and recommendations for
follow-on actions.
2
See 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I) and Corr.2), annex.
3
2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final
Document, vols. I–III (NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts I–IV)).
4
2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final
Document, vols. I–III (NPT/CONF.2010/50 (Vols. I–III)).
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