Effective Measures to Implement the Purposes and Objectives of the Disarmament Decade

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1977.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1977–1979

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/33/62

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1979	A/RES/33/62	Effective measures to implement the purposes and objectives of the Disarmament Decade	450	30%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/80	Effective measures to implement the purposes and objectives of the Disarmament Decade	544	28%Compare
1977	A/RES/31/68	Effective measures to implement the purposes and objectives of the Disarmament Decade	755	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Information Dissemination International Decades Nuclear Disarmament

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the purposes and objectives of the Disarmament Decade;

Deplores the meagre achievements of the Disarmament Decade in terms of truly effective disarmament and arms limitation agreements, and the detrimental effects on world peace and economy of the continuing unproductive and wasteful arms race, particularly the nuclear-arms race;

Calls again upon all States, as well as the organs

concerned with disarmament issues, to place at the centre of their preoccupations the adoption of effective measures for the cessation of the arms race, especially in the nuclear field, and for the reduction of military expenditures and to make sustained efforts with a view to achieving progress towards general and complete disarmament;

Calls upon Member States and the Secretary- General to intensify their efforts in support of the link between disarmament and development, envisaged in General Assembly resolution 2602 E (XXIV) on the Disarmament Decade, so as to promote disarmament negotiations and to ensure that the human and material resources freed by disarmament are used to promote economic and social development, particularly in the developing countries;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure a proper co-ordination of disarmament and development activities within the United Nations system of organizations and to report to the General Assembly at its thirtysecond session;

Requests the Secretary-General to offer appropriate assistance and information to Member States that may require them in pursuance of the purposes and objectives of the Disarmament Decade;

Urges the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to adopt, during its 1977 session, a comprehensive programme dealing with all aspects of the problem of the cessation of the arms race and general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 2602 E (XXIV) proclaiming the Disarmament Decade;

Calls upon non-governmental organizations and international institutions and organizations to further the goals of the Disarmament Decade;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-second session the item entitled "Effective measures to implement the purposes and objectives of the Disarmament Decade".

21 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 1 A (A/31/1/ Add.l), sect. V.

22 [bid., Supplement No. 27 (A/31/27), paras. 227-246.

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