United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/60/78
Distr.: General
11 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 97 (p)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005
[on the report of the First Committee (A/60/463)]
60/78.
Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons
of mass destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 59/80 of 3 December 2004,
Recognizing the determination of the international community to combat
terrorism, as evidenced in relevant General Assembly and Security Council
resolutions,
Deeply concerned by the growing risk of linkages between terrorism and
weapons of mass destruction, and in particular by the fact that terrorists may seek to
acquire weapons of mass destruction,
Cognizant of the steps taken by States to implement Security Council
resolution 1540 (2004) on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,
adopted on 28 April 2004,
Welcoming the adoption, by consensus, of the International Convention for the
Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism on 13 April 2005, 1
Welcoming also the adoption, by consensus, of amendments to strengthen the
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material 2 by the International
Atomic Energy Agency on 8 July 2005,
Noting the support expressed in the Final Document of the Thirteenth
Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, which was
held in Kuala Lumpur from 20 to 25 February 2003, 3 and in the Final Document of
the Fourteenth Ministerial Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries,
which was held in Durban, South Africa, from 17 to 19 August 2004, for measures
to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction,
Noting also that the Group of Eight, the European Union, the Regional Forum
of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and others have taken into account in
their deliberations the dangers posed by the acquisition by terrorists of weapons of
mass destruction, and the need for international cooperation in combating it,
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1
Resolution 59/290, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1456, No. 24631.
3
A/57/759-S/2003/332, annex I.
2
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