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Prohibition of the production of fissile material for
nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices
The General Assembly,
Welcoming the significant progress in reducing nuclear-weapon arsenals
as evidenced by the substantive bilateral agreements between the Russian
Federation and the United States of America and their respective unilateral
undertakings regarding the disposition of fissile material,
Welcoming also the initiative of the United States of America concerning
a multilateral, internationally and effectively verifiable treaty on the
prohibition of the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other
nuclear explosive devices,
Welcoming further the decision taken by the Conference on Disarmament on
10 August 1993 to give its Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban a mandate to
negotiate a universal and internationally and effectively verifiable
comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty, 18/ and fully endorsing the contents of
that decision,
Convinced that a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally
and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material
for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices would be a significant
contribution to nuclear non-proliferation in all its aspects,
1.
Recommends the negotiation in the most appropriate international
forum of a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and
effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for
nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;
2.
Requests the International Atomic Energy Agency to provide
assistance for examination of verification arrangements for such a treaty as
required;
3.
Calls upon all States to demonstrate their commitment to the
objectives of a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and
effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for
nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;
4.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth
session an item entitled "Prohibition of the production of fissile material
for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices".
81st plenary meeting,
16 December 1993
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth
Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/48/27), para. 31 (para. 2 of the quoted text).