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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/121
4 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 82
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/51/589)]
51/121.
Effects of atomic radiation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 913 (X) of
established the United Nations Scientific
Radiation, and its subsequent resolutions
50/26 of 6 December 1995, in which, inter
Committee to continue its work,
3 December 1955, by which it
Committee on the Effects of Atomic
on the subject, including resolution
alia, it requested the Scientific
Taking note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations
Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation,1
Reaffirming the desirability of the Scientific Committee continuing its
work,
Concerned about the potentially harmful effects on present and future
generations resulting from the levels of radiation to which mankind and the
environment are exposed,
Noting the views expressed by Member States at its fifty-first session
with regard to the work of the Scientific Committee,
Conscious of the continuing need to examine and compile information
about atomic and ionizing radiation and to analyse its effects on mankind and
the environment,
1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session,
Supplement No. 46 (A/51/46).
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