A/RES/57/68 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 30 December 2002 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 66 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the First Committee (A/57/510)] 57/68. Bilateral strategic nuclear arms reductions and the new strategic framework The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 53/77 Z of 4 December 1998 and other relevant resolutions, Welcoming the completion of strategic arms reductions codified in the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START) 1 by Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the United States of America, Agreeing that new global challenges and threats require the building of a qualitatively new foundation for strategic relations between the United States of America and the Russian Federation, Noting with satisfaction the building of the new strategic relationship between the United States of America and the Russian Federation based on the principles of mutual security, trust, openness, cooperation and predictability, Appreciating the joint determination of the two countries to work together and with other nations and international organizations to promote security, economic well-being and a peaceful, prosperous free world, Applauding the agreement whereby each country will reduce its strategic nuclear warheads to a number that does not exceed 1,700 to 2,200, as specified in the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions (“the Moscow Treaty”), 2 by 31 December 2012, Believing that the agreed strategic reductions advance the commitment of both the United States of America and the Russian Federation under article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 3 Appreciating that the United States of America and the Russian Federation will continue to work closely together, including through cooperative programmes, to _______________ 1 The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 16: 1991 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.92.IX.1), appendix II. 2 See CD/1674. 3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485. 02 54256