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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/57
31 December 1999
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 79
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/54/566)]
54/57.
The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind its relevant resolutions,
Taking note of the relevant resolutions adopted by the General Conference of the International Atomic
Energy Agency, the latest of which is resolution GC(43)/RES/23 adopted on 1 October 1999,
Cognizant that the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the region of the Middle East would pose a
serious threat to international peace and security,
Mindful of the immediate need to place all nuclear facilities in the region of the Middle East under
full-scope safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
Recalling the resolution on the Middle East adopted by the 1995 Review and Extension Conference
of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons on 11 May 1995,1 in which the
Conference noted with concern the continued existence in the Middle East of unsafeguarded nuclear
facilities, reaffirmed the importance of the early realization of universal adherence to the Treaty2 and
called upon all States in the Middle East that had not yet done so, without exception, to accede to the
1
See 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I)), annex.
2
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.
99-77755
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