A/RES/72/38
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 December 2017
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 99 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 4 December 2017
[on the report of the First Committee (A/72/409)]
72/38.
Nuclear disarmament
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 49/75 E of 15 December 1994 on a step-by-step
reduction of the nuclear threat, and its resolutions 50/70 P of 12 December 1995,
51/45 O of 10 December 1996, 52/38 L of 9 December 1997, 53/77 X of
4 December 1998, 54/54 P of 1 December 1999, 55/33 T of 20 November 2000,
56/24 R of 29 November 2001, 57/79 of 22 November 2002, 58/56 of 8 December
2003, 59/77 of 3 December 2004, 60/70 of 8 December 2005, 61/78 of 6 December
2006, 62/42 of 5 December 2007, 63/46 of 2 December 2008, 64/53 of 2 December
2009, 65/56 of 8 December 2010, 66/51 of 2 December 2011, 67/60 of 3 December
2012, 68/47 of 5 December 2013, 69/48 of 2 December 2014, 70/52 of 7 December
2015 and 71/63 of 5 December 2016 on nuclear disarmament,
Reaffirming the commitment of the international community to the goal of the
total elimination of nuclear weapons and the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free
world,
Bearing in mind that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and
on Their Destruction of 1972 1 and the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their
Destruction of 1993 2 have already established legal regimes on the complete
prohibition of biological and chemical weapons, respectively, and determined to
achieve a comprehensive nuclear weapons convention on the prohibition of the
development, testing, production, stockpiling, loan, transfer, use a nd threat of use of
nuclear weapons and on their destruction, and to conclude such an internation al
convention at an early date,
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17-21713 (E)
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1015, No. 14860.
Ibid., vol. 1974, No. 33757.
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