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5.
Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General
Assembly at its fifty-sixth session;
6.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the
item entitled “Relationship between disarmament and development”.
69th plenary meeting
20 November 2000
M
C ONVENING OF THE FOURTH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE G ENERAL ASSEMBLY
DEVOTED TO DISARMAMENT
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 49/75 I of 15 December 1994, 50/70 F of
12 December 1995, 51/45 C of 10 December 1996, 52/38 F of 9 December 1997,
53/77 AA of 4 December 1998 and 54/54 U of 1 December 1999,
Recalling also that, there being a consensus to do so in each case, three special
sessions of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament were held in 1978, 1982
and 1988, respectively,
Bearing in mind the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the
General Assembly, 31 adopted by consensus at the first special session devoted to
disarmament, which included the Declaration, the Programme of Action and the
Machinery for disarmament,
Bearing in mind also the objective of general and complete disarmament under
effective international control,
Taking note of paragraph 145 of the Final Document of the Twelfth Conference
of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Durban, South
Africa, from 29 August to 3 September 1998,42 which supported the convening of
the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, which
would offer an opportunity to review, from a perspective more in tune with the
current international situation, the most critical aspects of the process of
disarmament and to mobilize the international community and public opinion in
favour of the elimination of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction and of
the control and reduction of conventional weapons,
Taking note also of the report of the 1999 substantive session of the
Disarmament Commission 46 and of the fact that no consensus was reached on the
item entitled “Fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to
disarmament”,
Desiring to build upon the substantive exchange of views on the fourth special
session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament during the 1999
substantive session of the Disarmament Commission,
Reiterating its conviction that a special session of the General Assembly
devoted to disarmament can set the future course of action in the field of
disarmament, arms control and related international security matters,
46
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/54/42).
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