A/RES/60/72
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 97
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005
[on the report of the First Committee (A/60/463)]
60/72.
Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed
to at the 1995 and 2000 Review Conferences of the Parties
to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons
The General Assembly,
Recalling its various resolutions in the field of nuclear disarmament, including
its most recent, resolutions 59/77, 59/83 and 59/102 of 3 December 2004,
Bearing in mind its resolution 2373 (XXII) of 12 June 1968, the annex to
which contains the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1
Noting the provisions of article VIII, paragraph 3, of the Treaty regarding the
convening of review conferences at five-year intervals,
Recalling its resolution 50/70 Q of 12 December 1995, in which the General
Assembly noted that the States parties to the Treaty affirmed the need to continue to
move with determination towards the full realization and effective implementation
of the provisions of the Treaty, and accordingly adopted a set of principles and
objectives,
Recalling also that, on 11 May 1995, the 1995 Review and Extension
Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
adopted three decisions on strengthening the review process for the Treaty,
principles and objectives for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and
extension of the Treaty, 2
Reaffirming the resolution on the Middle East adopted on 11 May 1995 by the
1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty,2 in which the
Conference reaffirmed the importance of the early realization of universal adherence
to the Treaty and placement of nuclear facilities under full-scope International
Atomic Energy Agency safeguards,
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See also United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.
See 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I) and Corr.2), annex.
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