A/RES/61/86
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 December 2006
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 90 (v)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2006
[on the report of the First Committee (A/61/394)]
61/86.
Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of
mass destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 60/78 of 8 December 2005,
Recognizing the determination of the international community to combat
terrorism, as evidenced in relevant General Assembly and Security Council
resolutions,
Deeply concerned by the growing risk of linkages between terrorism and
weapons of mass destruction, and in particular by the fact that terrorists may seek to
acquire weapons of mass destruction,
Cognizant of the steps taken by States to implement Security Council
resolution 1540 (2004) on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,
adopted on 28 April 2004,
Welcoming the adoption, by consensus, of the International Convention for the
Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism on 13 April 2005, 1
Welcoming also the adoption, by consensus, of amendments to strengthen the
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material 2 by the International
Atomic Energy Agency on 8 July 2005,
Noting the support expressed in the Final Document of the Fourteenth
Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in
Havana on 15 and 16 September 2006, 3 for measures to prevent terrorists from
acquiring weapons of mass destruction,
Noting also that the Group of Eight, the European Union, the Regional Forum
of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and others have taken into account in
their deliberations the dangers posed by the acquisition by terrorists of weapons of
mass destruction, and the need for international cooperation in combating it,
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1
Resolution 59/290, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1456, No. 24631.
3
A/61/472-S/2006/780, annex I.
2
06-49959