A/RES/72/251
Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament
Weapons, including through the United Nations Offices at Geneva and Vienna, as well
as the United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament;
19. Calls upon Member States, the United Nations system and civil society,
including non-governmental organizations, academia, parliamentarians, the mass
media and individuals, to commemorate and promote the International Day for the
Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons through all means of educational and public
awareness-raising activities about the threat posed to humanity by nuclear weapons
and the necessity for their total elimination in order to mobilize international efforts
towards achieving the common goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world;
20. Requests the Secretary-General to seek the views of Member States with
regard to achieving the objective of the total elimination of nuclear weapons, in
particular on effective nuclear disarmament measures, including elements of a
comprehensive convention on nuclear weapons, and to submit a report thereon to the
General Assembly at its seventy-third session, and also to transmit the report to the
Conference on Disarmament;
21. Also requests the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of the
present resolution to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session;
22. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session,
under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled
“Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear
disarmament”.
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