Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon
States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons
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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
Disarmament2 submitted to the General Assembly at its twelfth special session, the
second special session devoted to disarmament, 3 and of the special report of the
Conference on Disarmament submitted to the Assembly at its fifteenth special session,
the third special session devoted to disarmament, 4 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, in which it is stated, 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 NonNuclear-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 Thirteenth Conference of Heads
of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Kuala Lumpur on 24 and
25 February 2003, 7 which was reiterated at the Sixteenth Conference of Heads of
State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Tehran from 26 to 31 August
2012, 8 as well as the relevant recommendations of the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation,
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
non-nuclear-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,
Recalling its relevant resolutions adopted in previous years, in particular
resolutions 45/54 of 4 December 1990, 46/32 of 6 December 1991, 47/50 of
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2
The Committee on Disarmament was redesignated the Conference on Disarmament as from
7 February1984.
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), sect. III.E.
7
SeeA/57/759-S/2003/332, annex I.
8
SeeA/67/506-S/2012/752, annex I.
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