Scientific and Technological Developments and Their Impact on International Security

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 58 Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security, published in 1990.

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7 documents · 1990–1994

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1994).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1994	A/RES/49/67	Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security	436	–
1994	A/RES/48/66	Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security	437	–
1992	A/RES/47/43	Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security	—	–
1990	A/RES/45/60	Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security	384	–
1990	A/RES/44/118	Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security	607	–

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What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

International Security New Technologies Science and Technology Technological Change Technology Assessment

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5 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled "Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security"; 2/

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(£) The international community needs to position itself better to follow the nature and direction of technological change;

The United Nations can serve as a catalyst and a clearing-house for ideas for this purpose;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to follow scientific and technological developments in order to make an assessment of emerging "new technologies" and to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session a framework for technology assessment guided, inter alia, by the criteria suggested in his report;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-seventh session the item entitled "Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security”.

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1/ See A/45/568.

2/ A/45/568.

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