Urgent Need for a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 48 Urgent need for a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, published in 1990.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1983–1990

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1990	A/RES/45/51	Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty	1,137	—
1990	A/RES/44/107	Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty	—	—
1988	A/RES/43/64	Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty	—	—
1987	A/RES/42/27	Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty	—	—
1986	A/RES/41/47	Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Disarmament Agreements Information Exchange Nuclear Weapon States Nuclear Weapon Tests Radioactivity Seismic Monitoring Verification

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms its conviction that a treaty to achieve the prohibition of all nuclear-test explosions by all States in all environments for all time is a matter of fundamental importance;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament, in order that a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty may be concluded at an early date, to re-establish the Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban at the beginning of its 1991 session to carry forward the work begun in the Conference in 1990, focusing on substantive work on specific and interrelated test-ban issues, including structure and scope as well as verification and compliance;

Also urges the Conference on Disarmament:

To take into account, in this context, the progress achieved by the Ad Hoc Group of Scientific Experts to Consider International Co-operative Measures to Detect and Identify Seismic Events, including work on the routine exchange and use of wave-form data, and other relevant initiatives or experiments by individual States and groups of States;

To encourage the widest possible participation by States in the technical test that is now under way concerning the global exchange and analysis of seismic data;

(£) To take immediate steps for the establishment, with the widest possible participation, of an international seismic monitoring network with a view to developing further a system for the effective monitoring and verification of compliance with a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty;

To initiate detailed investigation of other measures to monitor and verify compliance with such a treaty, including on-site Inspections and an internaLtional network to monitor atmospheric radioactivity;

Urges:

(a ) The nuclear-weapon States, especially those which possess the most important nuclear arsenals, to agree promptly to appropriate verifiable and

£/ See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fortv-fifth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/45/27), para. 29.

militarily significant interim measures, with a view to concluding a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty:

iii) Those nuclear-weapon States which have not yet done so to adhere to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water; 1/

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to report to the GenereU Assembly at its forty-sixth session on progress made:

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-sixth session the item entitled "Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty”.

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4 December 1990

2/ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 480, No. 6964.

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