A/RES/64/46
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 January 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 96 (k)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 December 2009
[on the report of the First Committee (A/64/391)]
64/46. Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on Their Destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject of chemical weapons, in
particular resolution 63/48 of 2 December 2008, adopted without a vote, in which it
noted with appreciation the ongoing work to achieve the objective and purpose of
the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and
Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, 1
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Determined to achieve the effective prohibition of the development,
production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and their
destruction,
Noting with satisfaction that, since the adoption of resolution 63/48, four
additional States have acceded to the Convention, bringing the total number of
States parties to the Convention to one hundred and eighty-eight,
Reaffirming the importance of the outcome of the Second Special Session of
the Conference of the States Parties to Review the Operation of the Chemical
Weapons Convention (hereinafter “the Second Review Conference”), including the
consensus final report, 2 which addressed all aspects of the Convention and made
important recommendations on its continued implementation,
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Emphasizing that the Second Review Conference welcomed the fact that,
eleven years after its entry into force, the Convention remains a unique multilateral
agreement banning an entire category of weapons of mass destruction in a
non-discriminatory and verifiable manner under strict and effective international
control,
Emphasizes that the universality of the Convention on the Prohibition of
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the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1974, No. 33757.
See Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, document RC-2/4.
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