United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/59/82
Distr.: General
16 December 2004
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 65
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2004
[on the report of the First Committee (A/59/459)]
59/82.
Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament
measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 51/45 N of 10 December 1996, 52/38 G of
9 December 1997, 53/77 M of 4 December 1998, 54/54 H of 1 December 1999,
55/33 G of 20 November 2000, 56/24 P of 29 November 2001 and 57/81 of
22 November 2002 and its decision 58/519 of 8 December 2003, entitled
“Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures”,
Convinced that a comprehensive and integrated approach towards certain
practical disarmament measures often is a prerequisite to maintaining and
consolidating peace and security and thus provides a basis for effective post-conflict
peace-building; such measures include: collection and responsible disposal,
preferably through destruction, of weapons obtained through illicit trafficking or
illicit manufacture as well as of weapons and ammunition declared by competent
national authorities to be surplus to requirements, particularly with regard to small
arms and light weapons, unless another form of disposition or use has been
officially authorized and provided that such weapons have been duly marked and
registered; confidence-building measures; disarmament, demobilization and
reintegration of former combatants; demining; and conversion,
Noting with satisfaction that the international community is more than ever
aware of the importance of such practical disarmament measures, especially with
regard to the growing problems arising from the excessive accumulation and
uncontrolled spread of small arms and light weapons, which pose a threat to peace
and security and reduce the prospects for economic development in many regions,
particularly in post-conflict situations,
Stressing that further efforts are needed in order to develop and effectively
implement programmes of practical disarmament in affected areas as part of
disarmament, demobilization and reintegration measures so as to complement, on a
case-by-case basis, peacekeeping and peace-building efforts,
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