A/RES/60/65 Recognizing that the enhancement of international peace and security and the promotion of nuclear disarmament are mutually reinforcing, Reaffirming that further advancement in nuclear disarmament will contribute to consolidating the international regime for nuclear non-proliferation and thereby ensuring international peace and security, Expressing deep concern regarding the growing dangers posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, inter alia, nuclear weapons, including that caused by proliferation networks, Welcoming the Final Declaration of the fourth Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, convened in New York in September 2005, 5 1. Reaffirms the importance of all States parties to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons1 complying with their obligations under all the articles of the Treaty, and stresses the importance of an effective Treaty review process; Also reaffirms the importance of the universality of the Treaty, and calls 2. upon States not parties to the Treaty to accede to it as non-nuclear-weapon States without delay and without conditions, and pending their accession to refrain from acts that would defeat the objective and purpose of the Treaty as well as to take practical steps in support of the Treaty; Encourages further steps leading to nuclear disarmament, to which all 3. States parties to the Treaty are committed under article VI of the Treaty, including deeper reductions in all types of nuclear weapons, and emphasizes the importance of applying irreversibility and verifiability, as well as increased transparency in a way that promotes international stability and undiminished security for all, in the process of working towards the elimination of nuclear weapons; Encourages the Russian Federation and the United States of America to 4. implement fully the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions, 6 which should serve as a step for further nuclear disarmament, and to undertake nuclear arms reductions beyond those provided for by the Treaty, while welcoming the progress made by nuclear-weapon States, including the Russian Federation and the United States, on nuclear arms reductions; Encourages States to continue to pursue efforts, within the framework of 5. international cooperation, contributing to the reduction of nuclear-weapons-related materials; Calls for the nuclear-weapon States to further reduce the operational 6. status of nuclear weapons systems in ways that promote international stability and security; Stresses the necessity of a diminishing role for nuclear weapons in 7. security policies to minimize the risk that these weapons will ever be used and to facilitate the process of their total elimination, in a way that promotes international stability and based on the principle of undiminished security for all; _______________ 5 6 2 CTBT-Art. XIV/2005/6, annex. See CD/1674.