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4.
Requests the Disarmament Commission to continue its work in
accordance with its mandate, as set forth in paragraph 118 of the Final Document of
the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, 2 and with paragraph 3 of
Assembly resolution 37/78 H of 9 December 1982, and to that end to make every
effort to achieve specific recommendations on the items of its agenda, taking into
account the adopted “Ways and means to enhance the functioning of the
Disarmament Commission”; 3
5.
Notes that the Disarmament Commission, at its 2001 organizational
session, adopted the following items for consideration at its 2002 substantive
session:
(a)
Ways and means to achieve nuclear disarmament;
(b)
Practical confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms;
6.
Requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not
exceeding three weeks during 2002 and to submit a substantive report to the General
Assembly at its fifty-seventh session;
7.
Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament
Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament, 4 together with all
the official records of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly relating to
disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require
for implementing the present resolution;
8.
Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure full provision to the
Disarmament Commission and its subsidiary bodies of interpretation and translation
facilities in the official languages and to assign, as a matter of priority, all the
necessary resources and services, including verbatim records, to that end;
9.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session
the item entitled “Report of the Disarmament Commission”.
68th plenary meeting
29 November 2001
B
R EPORT OF THE C ONFERENCE ON D ISARMAMENT
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Conference on Disarmament, 4
Convinced that the Conference on Disarmament, as the single multilateral
disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, has the primary role
in substantive negotiations on priority questions of disarmament,
Recognizing the need to conduct multilateral negotiations with the aim of
reaching agreement on concrete issues for negotiation,
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Resolution S-10/2.
A/CN.10/137.
4
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/56/27).
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