A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/47 31 December 1997 Fifty-second session Agenda item 80 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the First Committee (A/52/609)] 52/47. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions relating to the complete and effective prohibition of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and to their destruction, Noting with satisfaction that there are one hundred and forty States parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction,1 including all the permanent members of the Security Council, Bearing in mind its call upon all States parties to the Convention to participate in the implementation of the recommendations of the Review Conferences, including the exchange of information and data agreed to in the Final Declaration of the Third Review Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction,2 and to provide such information and data in conformity with standardized procedure to the Secretary-General on an annual basis and no later than 15 April, Recalling its resolution 46/35 A, adopted without a vote on 6 December 1991, in which it welcomed, inter alia, the establishment, proceeding from the recommendations of the Third Review Conference,3 of an 1 Resolution 2826 (XXVI), annex. 2 BWC/CONF.III/23, part II. 3 See BWC/CONF.III/23. 97-77779 /...