A/RES/56/24 5. Requests the Secretary-General to take steps towards the implementation of the seven recommendations identified in the report of the Advisory Board that would significantly reduce the risk of nuclear war, including the proposal contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration for convening an international conference to identify ways of eliminating nuclear dangers, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session; 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “Reducing nuclear danger”. 68th plenary meeting 29 November 2001 D C ONVENING OF THE FOURTH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE G ENERAL ASSEMBLY DEVOTED TO DISARMAMENT The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 49/75 I of 15 December 1994, 50/70 F of 12 December 1995, 51/45 C of 10 December 1996, 52/38 F of 9 December 1997, 53/77 AA of 4 December 1998, 54/54 U of 1 December 1999 and 55/33 M of 20 November 2000, Recalling also that, there being a consensus to do so in each case, three special sessions of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament were held, in 1978, 1982 and 1988, respectively, Bearing in mind the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, 4 adopted by consensus at the first special session devoted to disarmament, which included the Declaration, the Programme of Action and the Machinery for disarmament, Bearing in mind also the objective of general and complete disarmament under effective international control, Taking note of paragraph 145 of the Final Document of the Twelfth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Durban, South Africa, from 29 August to 3 September 1998, 8 which supported the convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, which would offer an opportunity to review, from a perspective more in tune with the current international situation, the most critical aspects of the process of disarmament and to mobilize the international community and public opinion in favour of the elimination of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction and of the control and reduction of conventional weapons, Taking note also of the report of the Disarmament Commission on its 1999 substantive session 9 and of the fact that no consensus was reached on the item entitled “Fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament”, _______________ 8 9 A/53/667-S/1998/1071, annex I. Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/54/42). 5