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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/39
31 December 1997
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 72
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/52/601)]
52/39.
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth
Special Session of the General Assembly
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United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament
in Asia and the Pacific
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 42/39 D of 30 November 1987 and 44/117 F of 15 December 1989, by which
it established the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and renamed it the
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, with headquarters at
Kathmandu and with the mandate of providing, on request, substantive support for the initiatives and other
activities mutually agreed upon by the Member States of the Asia-Pacific region for the implementation of
measures for peace and disarmament, through appropriate utilization of available resources,
Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General,1 in which he expresses his belief that the mandate of the
Regional Centre remains valid and that the Centre could be a useful instrument for fostering a climate of
cooperation in the post-cold-war era,
Commending the useful activities carried out by the Regional Centre in encouraging regional and
subregional dialogue for the enhancement of openness, transparency and confidence-building, as well as the
promotion of disarmament and security through the organization of regional meetings, which has come to be
widely known within the Asia-Pacific region as the "Kathmandu process",
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A/52/309 and Corr.1.
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