A/RES/72/283
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 June 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 65
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 22 June 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.61 and A/72/L.61/Add.1)]
72/283.
Strengthening regional and international cooperation to ensure
peace, stability and sustainable development in the Central
Asian region
The General Assembly,
Guided by the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations that encourage
measures for regional cooperation to advance the purposes and principles o f the
United Nations,
Recognizing the important role of the Central Asian countries in ensuring peace,
stability and sustainable development in the region as well as in promoting regional
and international cooperation,
Keeping in mind modern challenges and threats faced by the countries of
Central Asia,
Acknowledging the major regional and international initiatives of the Central
Asian States in the fields of security and development, including:
(a) The establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia as an
effective measure towards the achievement of a world free of nuclear weapons and
other weapons of mass destruction, 1
(b) The declaration by the General Assembly of 29 August as the International
Day against Nuclear Tests as one of the key means of achieving the goal of a nuclearweapon-free world, 2
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See resolutions 65/49, 67/31, 69/36 and 71/65, entitled “Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
in Central Asia”.
See resolution 64/35 on the International Day against Nuclear Tests.
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