Economic and Social Consequences of the Armaments Race and Its Extremely Harmful Effects on World Peace and Security

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 33 Economic and social consequences of the armaments race and its extremely harmful effects on world peace and security, published in 1978.

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8 versions · 1971–1986

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/40/150

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1986	A/RES/40/150	Economic and social consequences of the armaments race and its extremely harmful effects on world peace and security	544	25%Compare
1983	A/RES/37/70	Economic and social consequences of the armaments race and its extremely harmful effects on world peace and security	612	25%Compare
1981	A/RES/35/141	Economic and social consequences of the armaments race and its extremely harmful effects on world peace and security	454	24%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/75	Economic and social consequences of the armaments race and its extremely harmful effects on world peace and security	654	37%Compare
1976	A/RES/3462(XXX)	Economic and social consequences of the armaments race and its extremely harmful effects on world peace and security	672	23%Compare

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4 subjects

Arms Race Disarmament Military Expenditures Public Information

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Welcomes with satisfaction the updated report of the Secretary-General entitled Economic and Social

2 A/8469/Rev.1 E.72.lX. l 6). Consequences of the Arms Race and of Military Expenditures3 and expresses the hope that it will help to focus future disarmament negotiations on nuclear disa~mament and on the goal of general and complete d1sarmament under effective international control;

Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General and to the consultant experts as well as to the Governments and international organizations that have rcndered assistance in the updating of the report;

Decides to transmit the report to the General Assembly at its special session devoted to disarmament, to be held in New York between 23 May and 28 June 1978;

Recommends that the conclusions of the updated report on the economic and social consequences of the arms race and of military expenditures should be taken into account in future disarmament negotiations;

Reques_ts the Secretary-General to arrange for the reproduct10n of the report as a United Nations publication3 and to give it the widest possible publicity m as many languages as is considered desirable and practicable;

Recommends to all Governments the widest possible distribution of the report, including its translation into the respective national languages;

Invites the specialized agencies as well as intergovernmental, national and non-governmental organizations to use their facilities to make the report widely known;

Reafjirms its decision to keep the item entitled "Econornic and social consequences of the armaments race and its extremely harmful eflects on world peace and security" under constant review and decides to inelude it in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fifth session.

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19 Dccembcr 1977 Tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on Principies Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Spacc,

including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies 35 anJ 36

20 December 1977 60 International co-operation in the peaceful uses of outn space ( A 1321418)

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20 December 1977 61 Resolution B 35 anJ 36

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