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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/70
9 January 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 57
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/49/694)]
49/70.
Comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/70 of 16 December 1993, in which the entire
international community, for the first time, supported the commencement of
multilateral negotiations on a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty,
Reaffirming that a comprehensive nuclear-test ban is one of the highest
priority objectives of the international community in the field of disarmament
and non-proliferation,
Convinced that the most effective way to achieve an end to nuclear
testing is through the conclusion of a universal and internationally and
effectively verifiable comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty that will attract
the adherence of all States and will contribute to the prevention of the
proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects, to the process of nuclear
disarmament and therefore to the enhancement of international peace and
security,
Reaffirming the conviction that the exercise of utmost restraint in
respect of nuclear testing would be consistent with the negotiation of a
comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty,
Noting the aspirations expressed by the parties to the 1963 Treaty
Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under
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