Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons Resolutions

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 63 Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons, published in 1986.

What else is in this group?

54 documents · 1973–1991

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1991).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1991	A/RES/46/35[C]	Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons resolutions	—	–
1991	A/RES/46/35[B]	Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons resolutions	—	–
1991	A/RES/46/35[A]	Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons resolutions	—	–
1991	A/RES/46/35	Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons resolutions	785	–
1991	A/RES/45/57[C]	Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons resolutions	—	–

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Biological Weapons Chemical Weapons Disarmament Negotiations International Instruments Treaties

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

A

Reaffirms the necessity of the speediest elaboration and conclusion of a convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of all chemical weapons and on their destruction;

Appeals to all States to facilitate in every possible way the conclusion of such a convention;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to intensify the negotiations in the Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons with a view to achieving accord on a chemical weapons convention at the earliest possible date and, for this purpose, to intensify the drafting process of such a convention for submission to the General Assembly at its forty-first session;

Reaffirms its call to all States to conduct serious negotiations in good faith and to refrain from any action that could impede negotiations on the prohibition of chemical weapons and specifically to refrain from the pro duction and deployment of binary and other new types of chemical weapons, as well as from stationing chemical weapons on the territory of other States;

Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to become parties to 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.

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12 December 1985

B

Takes note of the work of the Conference on Dis armament during its session in 1985 regarding the prohibi tion of chemical weapons and, in particular, appreciates the work of its Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical Weapons on that question and the progress recorded in its report;

Expresses again its regret and concern that an agree ment on the complete and effective prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of all chemical weapons and on their destruction has not yet been elabo rated;

Urges again the Conference on Disarmament, as a matter of high priority, to intensify, during its session in 1986, the negotiations on such a convention and to rein force further its efforts, inter alia, by increasing the time during the year that it devotes to such negotiations, taking into account all existing proposals and future initiatives, with a view to the final elaboration of a convention at the earliest possible date, and to re-establish its Ad Hoc Com mittee on Chemical Weapons for this purpose with the 1985 mandate;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to report to the General Assembly at its forty-first session on the results of its negotiations.

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12 December 1985

C

Welcomes the ongoing efforts to ensure the most effective prohibitions possible on chemical and biological weapons;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to accelerate its negotiations on a multilateral convention on the com plete and effective prohibition of the development, pro duction and stockpiling of chemical weapons and on their destruction;

Calls upon all States, pending the conclusion of such a comprehensive ban, to co-operate in efforts to prevent the use of chemical weapons.

PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL WEAPONS 35 Ibid., Supplement No. 42 (A/40/42). annex II.

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ment No. '!7 (A/40/27 and Corr. I), para. 96.