A/RES/58/47 Reiterating the highest priority accorded to nuclear disarmament in the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly 1 and by the international community, 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 1. and 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 57/84 of 22 November 2002; 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 fifty-ninth session; Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session the 6. item entitled “Reducing nuclear danger”. 71st plenary meeting 8 December 2003 _______________ 1 Resolution S-10/2. 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/58/162 and Add.1. 5 See A/56/400, para. 3. 2 2