A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/54/66 11 February 2000 Fifty-fourth session Agenda item 86 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A/54/573)] 54/66. Effects of atomic radiation The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 913 (X) of 3 December 1955, by which it established the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, and its subsequent resolutions on the subject, including resolution 53/44 of 3 December 1998, in which, inter alia, it requested the Scientific Committee to continue its work, Taking note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation,1 Reaffirming the desirability of the Scientific Committee continuing its work, Concerned about the potentially harmful effects on present and future generations resulting from the levels of radiation to which mankind and the environment are exposed, Noting the views expressed by Member States at its fifty-fourth session with regard to the work of the Scientific Committee, Conscious of the continuing need to examine and compile information about atomic and ionizing radiation and to analyse its effects on mankind and the environment, 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 46 (A/54/46). 00 28362 /...