Urgent Need for Cessation of Nuclear and Thermonuclear Tests and Conclusion of a Treaty Designed to Achieve a Comprehensive Test Ban ; Conclusion of a Treaty on the Complete and General Prohibition of Nuclear-Weapon Tests

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 40 Urgent need for cessation of nuclear and thermonuclear tests and conclusion of a treaty designed to achieve a comprehensive test ban and 49 Conclusion of a treaty on the complete and general prohibition of nuclear-weapon tests, published in 1978.

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Disarmament Nuclear Weapon Tests Treaties

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Reiterates its grave concern that in spite of the repeated resolutions of the General Assembly related to nuclear-weapon testing in ali environments, adopted by very large majorities, such testing has continued unabated during the past year;

Notes with satisfaction that negotiations have begun among thrce nuclear-weapon States with a view to the drafting of an agreement on the subject of the present rcsolution;

Declares that the conclusion of such an agreement and its opening for signature would be the best possible augury for the success of the special session of the General Asscmbly devoted to disarmament. to be he!d in May and June 1978;

Urges the three nuclear-weapon States to expedite their negotiations with a view to bringing them to a positive conclusion as soon as possible and to use their best endeavours to transmit the results for full consideration by the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament by the beginning of its spring session m 1978;

Requests the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to take up the agreed text resulting from the negotiations referred to in paragraph 4 above with the utmost urgency, with a view to the submission of a d~aft treaty to the_ General Assembly at its special sess10n devoted to d1sarmament; . 6. . Deci~es to i~clude in the provisional agenda of 1ts thir_ty-third sess10n an item relating to the implementat10n of the present resolution.

11 Ojficial Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-second

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