A/RES/57/56
Bearing in mind paragraph 59 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special
Session of the General Assembly, 1 the first special session devoted to disarmament,
in which it urged the nuclear-weapon States to pursue efforts to conclude, as
appropriate, effective arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the
use or threat of use of nuclear weapons, and desirous of promoting the
implementation of the relevant provisions of the Final Document,
Recalling the relevant parts of the special report of the Committee on
Disarmament 2 submitted to the General Assembly at its twelfth special session, 3 the
second special session devoted to disarmament, and of the special report of the
Conference on Disarmament submitted to the Assembly at its fifteenth special
session, 4 the third special session devoted to disarmament, as well as the report of
the Conference on its 1992 session, 5
Recalling also paragraph 12 of the Declaration of the 1980s as the Second
Disarmament Decade, contained in the annex to its resolution 35/46 of 3 December
1980, which states, inter alia, that all efforts should be exerted by the Committee on
Disarmament urgently to negotiate with a view to reaching agreement on effective
international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or
threat of use of nuclear weapons,
Noting the in-depth negotiations undertaken in the Conference on
Disarmament and its Ad Hoc Committee on Effective International Arrangements to
Assure Non-Nuclear-Weapon States against the Use or Threat of Use of Nuclear
Weapons, 6 with a view to reaching agreement on this question,
Taking note of the proposals submitted under the item in the Conference on
Disarmament, including the drafts of an international convention,
Taking note also of the relevant decision of the Twelfth Conference of Heads
of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Durban, South Africa,
from 29 August to 3 September 1998, 7 as well as the relevant recommendations of
the Organization of the Islamic Conference,
Taking note further of the unilateral declarations made by all the nuclearweapon States on their policies of non-use or non-threat of use of nuclear weapons
against the non-nuclear-weapon States,
Noting the support expressed in the Conference on Disarmament and in the
General Assembly for the elaboration of an international convention to assure nonnuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons, as well as
the difficulties pointed out in evolving a common approach acceptable to all,
Taking note of Security Council resolution 984 (1995) of 11 April 1995 and the
views expressed on it,
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1
Resolution S-10/2.
The Committee on Disarmament was redesignated the Conference on Disarmament as from 7 February
1984.
3
Official Records of the General Assembly, Twelfth Special Session, Supplement No. 2
(A/S-12/2), sect. III.C.
4
Ibid., Fifteenth Special Session, Supplement No. 2 (A/S-15/2), sect. III.F.
5
Ibid., Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/47/27), sect. III.F.
6
Ibid., Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/48/27), para. 39.
7
See A/53/667-S/1998/1071, annex I.
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