United Nations
A/RES/61/64
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 January 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 90 (k)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2006
[on the report of the First Committee (A/61/394)]
61/64. Relationship between disarmament and development
The General Assembly,
Recalling that the Charter of the United Nations envisages the establishment
and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for
armaments of the world’s human and economic resources,
Recalling also the provisions of the Final Document of the Tenth Special
Session of the General Assembly concerning the relationship between disarmament
and development, 1 as well as the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final
Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between
Disarmament and Development, 2
Recalling further its resolutions 49/75 J of 15 December 1994, 50/70 G of
12 December 1995, 51/45 D of 10 December 1996, 52/38 D of 9 December 1997,
53/77 K of 4 December 1998, 54/54 T of 1 December 1999, 55/33 L of
20 November 2000, 56/24 E of 29 November 2001, 57/65 of 22 November 2002,
59/78 of 3 December 2004 and 60/61 of 8 December 2005, and its decision 58/520
of 8 December 2003,
Bearing in mind the Final Document 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, 3 and the Final Document of the Thirteenth
Ministerial Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in
Cartagena, Colombia, on 8 and 9 April 2000, 4
Mindful of the changes in international relations that have taken place since
the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final Document of the International
Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development, including
the development agenda that has emerged over the past decade,
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1
See resolution S-10/2.
United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8.
3
A/53/667-S/1998/1071, annex I.
4
A/54/917-S/2000/580, annex.
2
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