United Nations
A/RES/55/34
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 January 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 74
Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the First Committee (A/55/560)]
55/34.
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of
the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly
A
UNITED NATIONS DISARMAMENT INFORMATION PROGRAMME
The General Assembly,
Recalling its decision taken in 1982 at its twelfth special session, the second
special session devoted to disarmament, by which the World Disarmament
Campaign was launched, 1
Bearing in mind its resolution 47/53 D of 9 December 1992, in which it
decided, inter alia, that the World Disarmament Campaign should be known
thereafter as the “United Nations Disarmament Information Programme” and the
World Disarmament Campaign Voluntary Trust Fund as the “Voluntary Trust Fund
for the United Nations Disarmament Information Programme”,
Recalling its resolutions 49/76 A of 15 December 1994, 51/46 A of
10 December 1996 and 53/78 E of 4 December 1998,
Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations
Disarmament Information Programme, 2
1.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the
United Nations Disarmament Information Programme;2
2.
Commends the Secretary-General for his efforts to make effective use of
the limited resources available to him in disseminating as widely as possible,
including by electronic means, information on arms limitation and disarmament to
Governments, the media, non-governmental organizations, educational communities
and research institutes, and in carrying out a seminar and conference programme;
1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Twelfth Special Session, Plenary Meetings, 1st meeting,
paras. 110 and 111.
2
A/55/128 and Add.1.
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