United Nations General Assembly A/RES/59/78 Distr.: General 17 December 2004 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 65 (e) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2004 [on the report of the First Committee (A/59/459)] 59/78. Relationship between disarmament and development The General Assembly, Recalling that the Charter of the United Nations envisages the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources, Recalling also the provisions of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly concerning the relationship between disarmament and development, 1 as well as the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development, 2 Recalling further its resolutions 49/75 J of 15 December 1994, 50/70 G of 12 December 1995, 51/45 D of 10 December 1996, 52/38 D of 9 December 1997, 53/77 K of 4 December 1998, 54/54 T of 1 December 1999, 55/33 L of 20 November 2000, 56/24 E of 29 November 2001 and 57/65 of 22 November 2002, and its decision 58/520 of 8 December 2003, Bearing in mind the Final Document of the Twelfth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Durban, South Africa, from 29 August to 3 September 1998, 3 and the Final Document of the Thirteenth Ministerial Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Cartagena, Colombia, on 8 and 9 April 2000, 4 Mindful of the changes in international relations that have taken place since the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development, including the development agenda that has emerged over the past decade, Bearing in mind the new challenges for the international community in the field of development, poverty eradication and the elimination of the diseases that afflict humanity, _______________ 1 See resolution S-10/2. United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8. 3 A/53/667-S/1998/1071, annex I. 4 A/54/917-S/2000/580, annex. 2 04-48094