Implementation of a General Assembly Resolution 31/67 Concerning the Signature and Ratification of Additional Protocol 2 of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 41 Implementation of General Assembly resolution 31/67 concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco), published in 1978.

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4 subjects

Latin America Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Treaties Ussr

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17 operative paragraphs

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Desiring to contribute to an early and successful conclusion of the negotiations on effective and strict measures for the complete prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of ali chemical weapons and for their destruction,

Urges all States to reach early agreement on the effective prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of all chemical weapons and on their des truction;

Requests the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to continue negotiations and, as a matter of high priority, to undertake the elaboration of an agreement on effective measures for the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of ali chemical weapons and for their destruction, taking into account all existing proposals and future initiatives submitted for its consideration;

Invites all Sta tes that have not yet done so to accede to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, as well as to accede to or ratify the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925, and calls again for the strict observance by ali States of the principles and objectives of those instruments;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament ali documents of the thirty-second session of the General Assembly relating to chemical weapons and to chemical means of warfare;

Requests the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to report on the results of its negotiations to the General Assembly at its special session devoted to disarmament, to be held in May and June 1978, and at its thirty-third session.

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.

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Implementation of General Assembly resolution 31/67 concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear W eapo.;s in Latin Amcrica (Treaty of" Tlatclolco)

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-third session an itero entitled "lmplementation of General Assembly resolution 32/79 concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco) ".

32/80. Effective measures to implement the purposes and ohjectives of the Disarmament Decade

Takes note of the decision of the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to set up an ad hoc working group to elaborate a comprehensive programme for disarmament;

Requests the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to continue its work on this subject and to submit a progress report to the General Assembly at its_ special session devoted to disarmament, to be held m May and June 1978;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this item by the General Assembly at its thirty-second session;

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 promete 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;

Urges that the unparalleled technical possibilities now available to mankind should be exploited for the purpose of combating poverty, ignorance, disease and hunger throughout the world;

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

32/81. lmplementation of the Declaration on the Denuclearization of Africa

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