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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/61
31 December 1999
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 83
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/54/570)]
54/61.
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and
Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on
Their Destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions relating to the complete and effective prohibition of bacteriological
(biological) and toxin weapons and to their destruction,
Noting with satisfaction that there are one hundred and forty-three States parties to the Convention
on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and
Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction,1 including all the permanent members of the Security Council,
Bearing in mind its call upon all States parties to the Convention to participate in the implementation
of the recommendations of the Review Conferences, including the exchange of information and data
agreed to in the Final Declaration of the Third Review Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the
Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin
Weapons and on Their Destruction,2 and to provide such information and data in conformity with
standardized procedure to the Secretary-General on an annual basis and no later than 15 April,
1
Resolution 2826 (XXVI), annex.
2
BWC/CONF.III/23, part II.
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