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1. Urges all States and regional organizations to intensify their efforts to contribute to the objective
of the elimination of anti-personnel landmines;
2. Welcomes, as interim measures, the various bans, moratoriums and other restrictions already declared
by States on anti-personnel landmines, and calls upon States that have not yet done so to declare and
implement such bans, moratoriums and other restrictions as soon as possible;
3. Invites the Conference on Disarmament to intensify its efforts on the issue of anti-personnel
landmines;
4. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session an item entitled "Contributions
towards banning anti-personnel landmines".
67th plenary meeting
9 December 1997
I
Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind resolutions CM/Res.1153 (XLVIII) of 198823 and CM/Res.1225 (L) of 1989,24 adopted
by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, concerning the dumping of nuclear and
industrial wastes in Africa,
Welcoming resolution GC(XXXIV)/RES/530 establishing a Code of Practice on the International
Transboundary Movement of Radioactive Waste, adopted on 21 September 1990 by the General Conference
of the International Atomic Energy Agency at its thirty-fourth regular session,25
Welcoming also resolution GC(XXXVIII)/RES/6, adopted on 23 September 1994 by the General
Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency at its thirty-eighth regular session,26 inviting the Board
of Governors and the Director General of the Agency to commence preparations for a convention on the
safety of radioactive waste management, and noting the progress that has been made in that regard,
Taking note of the commitment by the participants at the Summit on Nuclear Safety and Security, held
in Moscow on 19 and 20 April 1996, to ban the dumping at sea of radioactive wastes,27
23
See A/43/398, annex I.
24
See A/44/603, annex I.
25
See International Atomic Energy Agency, Resolutions and Other Decisions of the General Conference,
Thirty-fourth Regular Session, 17-21 September 1990 (GC(XXXIV)/RESOLUTIONS (1990)).
26
Ibid., Thirty-eighth Regular Session, 19-23 September 1994 (GC(XXXVIII)/RES/DEC (1994)).
27
A/51/131, annex I, para. 20.
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