United Nations
A/RES/61/68
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 January 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 90 (p)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2006
[on the report of the First Committee (A/61/394)]
61/68. Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on Their Destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject of chemical weapons, in
particular resolution 60/67 of 8 December 2005, adopted without a vote, in which it
noted with appreciation the ongoing work to achieve the objective and purpose of
the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and
Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, 1
Determined to achieve the effective prohibition of the development,
production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and their
destruction,
Noting with satisfaction that, since the adoption of resolution 60/67, six
additional States have ratified the Convention or acceded to it, bringing the total
number of States parties to the Convention to one hundred and eighty,
Reaffirming the importance of the outcome of the First Special Session of the
Conference of the States Parties to Review the Operation of the Chemical Weapons
Convention, including the Political Declaration, 2 in which the States parties
reaffirmed their commitment to achieving the objective and purpose of the
Convention, and the final report, 3 which addressed all aspects of the Convention and
made important recommendations on its continued implementation,
1.
Emphasizes that the universality of the Convention on the Prohibition of
the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on
Their Destruction1 is fundamental to the achievement of its objective and purpose
and acknowledges progress made in the implementation of the action plan for the
universality of the Convention, and calls upon all States that have not yet done so to
become parties to the Convention without delay;
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1974, No. 33757.
See Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, document RC-1/3.
3
Ibid., document RC-1/5.
2
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