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3. Also welcomes the desire of the Conference on Disarmament to promote substantive progress during
its 1998 session, and expresses the hope that appropriate consultations during the inter-sessional period could
lead to the commencement of early work on various agenda items;
4.
Encourages the Conference on Disarmament to continue the further review of its membership;
5. Also encourages the Conference on Disarmament to intensify further the ongoing review of its
agenda and methods of work;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure the provision to the Conference on
Disarmament of adequate administrative, substantive and conference support services;
7. Requests the Conference on Disarmament to submit a report on its work to the General Assembly
at its fifty-third session;
8. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled "Report of
the Conference on Disarmament".
67th plenary meeting
9 December 1997
B
Report of the Disarmament Commission
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Disarmament Commission,2
Recalling its resolutions 47/54 A of 9 December 1992, 47/54 G of 8 April 1993, 48/77 A of
16 December 1993, 49/77 A of 15 December 1994, 50/72 D of 12 December 1995 and 51/47 B of
10 December 1996,
Considering the role that the Disarmament Commission has been called upon to play and the contribution
that it should make in examining and submitting recommendations on various problems in the field of
disarmament and in the promotion of the implementation of the relevant decisions adopted by the General
Assembly at its tenth special session,
1.
Takes note of the report of the Disarmament Commission;2
2. Reaffirms the importance of further enhancing the dialogue and cooperation among the First
Committee, the Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament;
3. Also reaffirms the role of the Disarmament Commission as the specialized, deliberative body within
the United Nations multilateral disarmament machinery that allows for in-depth deliberations on specific
disarmament issues, leading to the submission of concrete recommendations on those issues;
4. Encourages the Disarmament Commission to continue to make every effort to enhance its working
methods so as to enable it to give focused consideration to a limited number of priority issues in the field
2
Ibid., Supplement No. 42 (A/52/42).
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