A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/54/63 10 January 2000 Fifty-fourth session Agenda item 85 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the First Committee (A/54/572)] 54/63. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty The General Assembly, Recalling that the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was adopted by its resolution 50/245 of 10 September 1996 and opened for signature on 24 September 1996, Noting that the first Meeting of the States Signatories adopted resolution CTBT/MSS/RES/1 on 19 November 1996, thereby establishing the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-TestBan Treaty Organization, Noting also that by decision 53/422 of 4 December 1998, it decided to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty”, Encouraged by the signing of the Treaty by one hundred and fifty-five States, including forty-one of the forty-four needed for its entry into force, and welcoming also the ratification of fifty-one States, including twenty-six of the forty-four needed for its entry into force, Welcoming the convening of the Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at Vienna from 6 to 8 October 1999 to promote the entry into force of the Treaty at the earliest possible date, 00 23423 /...