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Recalling also the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final Document of the International Conference
on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development,11
Recalling further its resolutions 49/75 J of 15 December 1994, 50/70 G of 12 December 1995 and 51/45
D of 10 December 1996,
Bearing in mind the Final Document of the Eleventh Conference of Heads of State or Government of
the Non-Aligned Countries, held at Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 18 to 20 October 1995,12
Stressing the growing importance of the symbiotic relationship between disarmament and development
in current international relations,
1. Acknowledges the note by the Secretary-General13 and actions taken in accordance with the Final
Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development;11
2. Urges the international community to devote part of the resources made available by the
implementation of disarmament and arms limitation agreements to economic and social development, with
a view to reducing the ever widening gap between developed and developing countries;
3. Invites all Member States to communicate to the Secretary-General, by 15 April 1998, their views
and proposals for the implementation of the action programme adopted at the International Conference on
the Relationship between Disarmament and Development,14 as well as any other views and proposals with
a view to achieving the goals of the action programme, within the framework of current international
relations;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take action, through appropriate organs and within
available resources, for the implementation of the action programme adopted at the International Conference;
5. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third
session;
6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled "Relationship
between disarmament and development".
67th plenary meeting
9 December 1997
11
United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8.
12
A/50/752-S/1995/1035, annex III; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fiftieth Year, Supplement
for October, November and December 1995, document S/1995/1035.
13
A/52/228.
14
United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8, para. 35.
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