A/RES/56/26 4. Requests the Disarmament Commission to continue its work in accordance with its mandate, as set forth in paragraph 118 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, 2 and with paragraph 3 of Assembly resolution 37/78 H of 9 December 1982, and to that end to make every effort to achieve specific recommendations on the items of its agenda, taking into account the adopted “Ways and means to enhance the functioning of the Disarmament Commission”; 3 5. Notes that the Disarmament Commission, at its 2001 organizational session, adopted the following items for consideration at its 2002 substantive session: (a) Ways and means to achieve nuclear disarmament; (b) Practical confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms; 6. Requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding three weeks during 2002 and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session; 7. Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament, 4 together with all the official records of the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implementing the present resolution; 8. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure full provision to the Disarmament Commission and its subsidiary bodies of interpretation and translation facilities in the official languages and to assign, as a matter of priority, all the necessary resources and services, including verbatim records, to that end; 9. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “Report of the Disarmament Commission”. 68th plenary meeting 29 November 2001 B R EPORT OF THE C ONFERENCE ON D ISARMAMENT The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Conference on Disarmament, 4 Convinced that the Conference on Disarmament, as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, has the primary role in substantive negotiations on priority questions of disarmament, Recognizing the need to conduct multilateral negotiations with the aim of reaching agreement on concrete issues for negotiation, _______________ 2 Resolution S-10/2. A/CN.10/137. 4 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/56/27). 3 2