Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 35/145 B

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 44 Implementation of General Assembly resolution 35/145B, published in 1982.

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Nuclear Weapon Tests Treaties

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

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Reiterates its grave concern that, despite the express wishes of the overwhelming majority of Member States. nuclear-weapon testing continues unabated;

Reaffirms its conviction that a treaty to achieve the prohibition of all nuclear-weapon-test explosions by all States for all time is a matter of the greatest urgency and highest priority;

Expresses the conviction that such a treaty constitutes a vital element for the success of efforts to halt and reverse the nuclear-arms race and the qll1llitative improvement of nuclear weapons and to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to additional countries;

Calls upon the three negotiating nuclear-weapon States to resume their negotiations and to exert their best efforts to bring them to an early successful conclusion and invites them to prepare a report on the state of negotiations in good time for submission to the General Assembly at its second special session devoted to disarmament;

Reiterates its conviction that the Committee on Disarmament has an indispensable role in the negotiation of a treaty prohibiting nuclear testing;

Requests the Committee on Disarmament to take the necessary steps, including the establishment of a working group, to initiate substantive negotiations on a comprehensive test-ban treaty as a matter of the highest priority at the beginning of its session in 1982;

Also requests the Committee on Disarmament to determine, in the context of its negotiations on such a treaty, the institutional and administrative arrangements necessary for establishing, testing and operating an international seismic monitoring network and an effective verification system;

Further requests the Committee on Disarmament to exert all efforts in order that the draft of such a treaty may be submitted to the General Assembly at the earliest possible date;

Urges all members of the Committee on Disarmament, in particular the nuclear-weapon States, to co-operate with the Committee in fulfilling its mandate;

Calls upon the Committee on Disarmament to report on progress to the General AssemblY. at its second special session devoted to disarmament and at its thirty-seventh session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-seventh session an item relating to the implementation of the present resolution.

• United Nations. Treaty Series, vol. 480. No. 6964, p. 43.

10 Resolution 2373 (XXII), annex.

11 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-sixth Session, Sup- " United Nations. Treatv Series. vol. 480. No. 6964. p. 43. plement No. 27 (A/36/27).

1 Resolution 2373 (XXII). annex.

NUCLEAR CAPABILITY OF SOUTH AFRICA " A/35/402 and Corr. I.

16 Official Records of the Security Council, Thirty-fifth Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1980, document S/14179.

17 Ibid .. document S/14167.

1• A/36/430. nexes, agenda item 105, document A/5975.

19 Resolution S-1012, para. 63 (c),

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

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