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mandate and respond to the increasingly diversified and numerous requests from
States,
Taking note with interest of the suggestion of the Secretary-General that
Member States may wish to consider alternative means of ensuring stable core
funding for the Centre,
Recalling the report of the Group of Governmental Experts on the relationship
between disarmament and development, 2 referred to in General Assembly resolution
59/78 of 3 December 2004, which is of utmost interest with regard to the role that
the Regional Centre plays in promoting the issue in the region in pursuit of its
mandate to promote economic and social development related to peace and
disarmament,
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Noting that security and disarmament issues have always been recognized as
significant topics in Latin America and the Caribbean, the first inhabited region in
the world to be declared a nuclear-weapon-free zone,
Welcoming the support provided by the Regional Centre to strengthening the
nuclear-weapon-free zone established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco), 3 as well as to
promoting and assisting the ratification and implementation of existing multilateral
agreements related to weapons of mass destruction and to promoting peace and
disarmament education projects during the period under review,
2F
Bearing in mind the important role of the Regional Centre in promoting
confidence-building measures, arms control and limitation, disarmament and
development at the regional level,
Bearing in mind also the importance of information, research, education and
training for peace, disarmament and development in order to achieve understanding
and cooperation among States,
Recognizing the need to provide the three United Nations regional centres for
peace and disarmament with sufficient financial resources and cooperation for the
planning and implementation of their programmes of activities,
Reiterates its strong support for the role of the United Nations Regional
1.
Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the
Caribbean in the promotion of United Nations activities at the regional level to
strengthen peace, stability, security and development among its member States;
Expresses its satisfaction for the activities carried out in the last year by
2.
the Regional Centre in the areas of peace, disarmament and development, and
requests the Centre to take into account the proposals to be submitted by the
countries of the region in promoting confidence-building measures, arms control
and limitation, transparency, disarmament and development at the regional level;
Requests the Secretary-General to provide from the regular budget,
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starting in the biennium 2010–2011, the necessary support to ensure the
sustainability of the core activities and operations of the Regional Centre, in order
to enable it to carry out its programme of activities in accordance with its mandate;
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See A/59/119.
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