A/RES/60/79
Recalling that in the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on
the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons 2 it is stated that there exists an
obligation for all States to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion
negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and
effective international control,
Recalling also the call in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 3 to seek
to eliminate the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction and the resolve to
strive for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear
weapons, including the possibility of convening an international conference to
identify ways of eliminating nuclear dangers,
Calls for a review of nuclear doctrines and, in this context, immediate and
1.
urgent steps to reduce the risks of unintentional and accidental use of nuclear
weapons;
Requests the five nuclear-weapon States to take measures towards the
2.
implementation of paragraph 1 above;
3.
Calls upon Member States to take the necessary measures to prevent the
proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects and to promote nuclear
disarmament, with the objective of eliminating nuclear weapons;
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
4.
paragraph 5 of General Assembly resolution 59/79 of 3 December 2004; 4
5.
Requests the Secretary-General to intensify efforts and support initiatives
that would contribute towards the full implementation of the seven recommendations
identified in the report of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters that would
significantly reduce the risk of nuclear war, 5 and also to continue to encourage
Member States to endeavour to create conditions that would allow the emergence of
an international consensus to hold an international conference as proposed in the
United Nations Millennium Declaration,3 to identify ways of eliminating nuclear
dangers, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session;
6.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the
item entitled “Reducing nuclear danger”.
61st plenary meeting
8 December 2005
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2
A/51/218, annex; see also Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J.
Reports 1996, p. 226.
3
See resolution 55/2.
4
A/60/122.
5
See A/56/400, para. 3.
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