A/RES/61/87
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 December 2006
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 90 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2006
[on the report of the First Committee (A/61/394)]
61/87.
Mongolia’s international security and nuclear-weapon-free
status
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 53/77 D of 4 December 1998, 55/33 S of
20 November 2000, 57/67 of 22 November 2002 and 59/73 of 3 December 2004,
Recalling also the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United
Nations, as well as the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning
Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of
the United Nations, 1
Bearing in mind its resolution 49/31 of 9 December 1994 on the protection and
security of small States,
Proceeding from the fact that nuclear-weapon-free status is one of the means
of ensuring the national security of States,
Convinced that the internationally recognized status of Mongolia will
contribute to enhancing stability and confidence-building in the region as well as
promote Mongolia’s security by strengthening its independence, sovereignty and
territorial integrity, the inviolability of its borders and the preservation of its
ecological balance,
Taking note of the adoption by the Mongolian parliament of legislation
defining and regulating Mongolia’s nuclear-weapon-free status 2 as a concrete step
towards promoting the aims of nuclear non-proliferation,
Bearing in mind the joint statement of the five nuclear-weapon States on
security assurances to Mongolia in connection with its nuclear-weapon-free status 3
as a contribution to implementing resolution 53/77 D as well as their commitment to
Mongolia to cooperate in the implementation of the resolution, in accordance with
the principles of the Charter,
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1
Resolution 2625 (XXV), annex.
See A/55/56-S/2000/160.
3
A/55/530-S/2000/1052, annex.
2
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