A/RES/55/33 7. Encourages the competent authorities of the nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties to provide assistance to the States parties and signatories to such treaties so as to facilitate the accomplishment of these goals; 8. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas”. 69th plenary meeting 20 November 2000 J M EASURES TO UPHOLD THE AUTHORITY OF THE 1925 G ENEVA P ROTOCOL The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, in particular resolution 53/77 L of 4 December 1998, Determined to act with a view to achieving effective progress towards general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, Recalling the long-standing determination of the international community to achieve the effective prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons as well as the continuing support for measures to uphold the authority of the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925, 38 as expressed by consensus in many previous resolutions, Welcoming the end of the cold war, the ensuing easing of international tension and the strengthening of trust between States, Welcoming also the initiatives by some States parties to withdraw their reservations to the 1925 Geneva Protocol, 1. Renews its previous call to all States to observe strictly the principles and objectives of the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925, 38 and reaffirms the vital necessity of upholding its provisions; 2. Notes with appreciation the recent withdrawal of reservations by two State parties to the Geneva Protocol; 39 3. Calls upon those States that continue to maintain reservations to the 1925 Geneva Protocol to withdraw those reservations; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the present resolution. 69th plenary meeting 20 November 2000 38 39 16 League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. XCIV (1929), No. 2138. See A/55/115 and Add.1.