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Recalling also its resolutions 43/75 Q of 7 December 1988, 44/116 R of
15 December 1989, 45/58 K of 4 December 1990, 46/36 K of 6 December 1991 and
47/52 D of 9 December 1992,
Desirous of promoting the implementation of paragraph 76 of the Final
Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, 1/
1.
Takes note of the part of the report of the Conference on
Disarmament relating to a future convention on the prohibition of radiological
weapons; 13/
2.
Expresses grave concern regarding any use of nuclear wastes that
would constitute radiological warfare and have grave implications for the
national security of all States;
3.
Calls upon all States to take appropriate measures with a view to
preventing any dumping of nuclear or radioactive wastes that would infringe
upon the sovereignty of States;
4.
Requests the Conference on Disarmament to take into account, in
the negotiations for a convention on the prohibition of radiological weapons,
radioactive wastes as part of the scope of such a convention;
5.
Also requests the Conference on Disarmament to intensify efforts
towards an early conclusion of such a convention and to include in its report
to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session the progress recorded in
the negotiations on this subject;
6.
Takes note of resolution CM/Res.1356 (LIV) of 1991, adopted by the
Council of Ministers of the Organization of Africa Unity, on the Bamako
Convention on the Ban on the Import of Hazardous Wastes into Africa and on the
Control of Their Transboundary Movements within Africa;
7.
Expresses the hope that the effective implementation of the
International Atomic Energy Agency Code of Practice on the International
Transboundary Movement of Radioactive Waste will enhance the protection of all
States from the dumping of radioactive wastes on their territories;
8.
Requests the International Atomic Energy Agency to continue
keeping the subject under active review, including the desirability of
concluding a legally binding instrument in this field;
9.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth
session the item entitled "Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes".
81st plenary meeting
16 December 1993
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session,
Supplement No. 27 (A/48/27), sect. III.F.
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