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Taking note of the proposals submitted under that item in the Conference
on Disarmament, including the drafts of an international convention,
Taking note also of the decision adopted by the Tenth Conference of
Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Jakarta from 1
to 6 September 1992, 7/ as well as the relevant recommendations of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference reiterated in the Final Communiqué of
the Twentieth Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers, held at Istanbul from 4
to 8 August 1991, 8/ calling upon the Conference on Disarmament to reach an
urgent agreement on an international convention to assure non-nuclear-weapon
States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons,
Taking note further of the unilateral declarations made by all nuclearweapon States on their policies of non-use or non-threat of use of nuclear
weapons against non-nuclear-weapon States,
Noting the support expressed in the Conference on Disarmament and in the
General Assembly for the elaboration of an international convention to assure
non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons,
as well as the difficulties pointed out in evolving a common approach
acceptable to all,
Noting also the greater willingness to overcome the difficulties
encountered in previous years,
Recalling its relevant resolutions adopted in previous years, in
particular resolutions 45/54 of 4 December 1990, 46/32 of 6 December 1991,
47/50 of 9 December 1992 and 48/73 of 16 December 1993,
1.
Reaffirms the urgent need to reach an early agreement on effective
international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use
or threat of use of nuclear weapons;
2.
Notes with satisfaction that in the Conference on Disarmament
there is no objection, in principle, to the idea of an international
convention to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of
use of nuclear weapons, although the difficulties as regards evolving a common
approach acceptable to all have also been pointed out;
3.
Appeals to all States, especially the nuclear-weapon States, to
work actively towards an early agreement on a common approach and, in
particular, on a common formula that could be included in an international
instrument of a legally binding character;
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7/
See A/47/675-S/24816, annex, chap. II, para. 47; see Official
Records of the Security Council, Forty-seventh Year, Supplement for October,
November and December 1992, document S/24816.
8/
See A/46/486-S/23055, annex I; see Official Records of the
Security Council, Forty-sixth Year, Supplement for July, August and September
1991, document S/23055.
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