United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/64/47
Distr.: General
12 January 2010
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 96 (y)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 December 2009
[on the report of the First Committee (A/64/391)]
64/47. Renewed determination towards the total elimination of
nuclear weapons
The General Assembly,
Recalling the need for all States to take further practical steps and effective
measures towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons, with a view to achieving
a peaceful and safe world, without nuclear weapons, and renewing the determination
to do so,
Noting that the ultimate objective of the efforts of States in the disarmament
process is general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international
control,
Recalling its resolution 63/73 of 2 December 2008,
Convinced that every effort should be made to avoid nuclear war and nuclear
terrorism,
Reaffirming the crucial importance of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons 1 as the cornerstone of the international nuclear non-proliferation
regime and an essential foundation for the pursuit of nuclear disarmament and for
the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, welcoming the results of the third session of the
Preparatory Committee for the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on
the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to be held in 2010, the year of the sixtyfifth anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and
noting the importance of achieving the success of the Review Conference,
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Recalling the decisions and the resolution of the 1995 Review and Extension
Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons 2 and the Final Document of the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to
the Treaty, 3
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.
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) and Corr.2), annex.
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2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final
Document, vols. I-III (NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts I-IV)).
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