A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/54/44 23 December 1999 Fifty-fourth session Agenda item 65 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the First Committee (A/54/552)] 54/44. Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions on the prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, Recalling also its resolution 51/37 of 10 December 1996 relating to the prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, Taking note of paragraph 77 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly,1 Determined to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction that have characteristics comparable in destructive effect to those of weapons of mass destruction identified in the definition of weapons of mass destruction adopted by the United Nations in 1948,2 Noting the desirability of keeping the matter under review, as appropriate, 1 Resolution S-10/2. 2 The definition was adopted by the Commission for Conventional Armaments (see S/C.3/32/Rev.1). 99-77683 /...