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1.
Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General 4/ and actions
undertaken in accordance with the Final Document of the International
Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development;
2.
Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take action, through
appropriate organs and within available resources, for the implementation of
the action programme adopted at the International Conference; 5/
3.
Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the
General Assembly at its forty-ninth session;
4.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth
session the item entitled "Relationship between disarmament and development".
81st plenary meeting
16 December 1993
B
Bilateral nuclear-arms negotiations and
nuclear disarmament
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous relevant resolutions,
Recognizing the fundamental changes that have taken place with respect
to international security, which have permitted agreements on deep reductions
in the nuclear armaments of the States possessing the largest inventories of
such weapons,
Mindful that it is the responsibility and obligation of all States to
contribute to the process of the relaxation of international tension and to
the strengthening of international peace and security,
Stressing the importance of strengthening international peace and
security through disarmament,
Emphasizing that nuclear disarmament remains one of the principal tasks
of our times,
Stressing also that it is the responsibility of all States to adopt and
implement measures towards the attainment of general and complete disarmament
under effective international control,
Appreciating a number of positive developments in the field of nuclear
disarmament, in particular the treaty that was concluded on 8 December 1987
between the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States
of America on the elimination of their intermediate-range and shorter-range
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A/48/400.
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United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8, para. 35.
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