A/RES/69/54
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 December 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 96 (v)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 December 2014
[on the report of the First Committee (A/69/440)]
69/54.
Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament
and non-proliferation
The General Assembly,
Determined to foster strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in
the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling its resolution 56/24 T of 29 November 2001 on multilateral
cooperation in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation and global efforts
against terrorism and other relevant resolutions, as well as its resolutions 57/63 of
22 November 2002, 58/44 of 8 December 2003, 59/69 of 3 December 2004, 60/59
of 8 December 2005, 61/62 of 6 December 2006, 62/27 of 5 December 2007, 63/50
of 2 December 2008, 64/34 of 2 December 2009, 65/54 of 8 December 2010, 66/32
of 2 December 2011, 67/38 of 3 December 2012 and 68/38 of 5 December 2013 on
the promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation,
Recalling also the purpose of the United Nations to maintain international
peace and security and, to that end, to take effective collective measures for the
prevention and removal of threats to the peace and for the suppression of acts of
aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means,
and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or
settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the
peace, as enshrined in the Charter,
Recalling further the United Nations Millennium Declaration,1 in which it is
stated, inter alia, that the responsibility for managing worldwide economic and
social development, as well as threats to international peace and security, must be
shared among the nations of the world and should be exercised multilaterally and
that, as the most universal and most representative organization in the world, the
United Nations must play the central role,
Convinced that, in the globalization era and with the information revolution,
arms regulation, non-proliferation and disarmament problems are more than ever the
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