At its 56th (resumed) plenary meeting, on 30 December 2022, the General Assembly, by a recorded vote of 162 to none, with 6 abstentions,64 on the recommendation of the First Committee,65 recalling its decision 59/515 of 3 December 2004 and its resolutions 60/74 of 8 December 2005, 61/72 of 6 December 2006, 63/61 of 2 December 2008, 64/51 of 2 December 2009, 66/42 of 2 December 2011, 68/52 of 5 December 2013, 70/35 of 7 December 2015, 72/55 of 4 December 2017 and 74/65 of 12 December 2019, its decision 75/552 of 31 December 2020, its resolution 76/233 of 24 December 2021, by which it had decided to establish an open-ended working group to elaborate a set of political commitments as a new global framework that would address existing gaps in through-life ammunition management that would convene for two 5-day sessions in 2022 and one 5-day session in 2023 and submit a report on its work, including recommendations on a set of political commitments as a new global framework on conventional ammunition, to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session, and its decision 76/568 of 21 June 2022, decided that the open-ended working group on conventional ammunition shall convene for an additional session of five days in New York in 2023 to complete its work, requested the Secretary-General to provide the support necessary to convene the additional session, and decided to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-eighth session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus”.
