Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 51 Cessation of all nuclear-test explosions and 53 Urgent need for a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, published in 1991.

What other versions does this mandate have?

30 versions · 1991–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/70

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/70	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	1,098	90%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/77	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	1,075	88%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/66	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	983	88%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/94	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	903	88%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/66	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	988	90%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

13 reports · 2005–2016

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2016	A/71/134/Add.1	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General : addendum	A/RES/70/73
2016	A/71/134	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/73
2015	A/70/171	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/69/81
2014	A/69/137	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/68
2012	A/67/137/Add.1	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General : addendum	A/RES/66/64

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Information Exchange Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Weapon States Nuclear Weapon Tests On-Site Inspection Radioactivity Satellite Monitoring Seismic Monitoring Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Verification

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

2/ The United Nations Disarmcunent Yearbook, vol. I:

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 priority which would constitute an essential step in order to prevent the qualitative improvement and development of nuclear weapons and their further proliferation, and which would contribute to the process of nuclear disarmcunent;

Urges, therefore, all States to seek to achieve the early discontinuance of all nuclear-test explosions for all time;

Reaffirms the particular responsibilities of the Conference on Disarmament in the negotiation of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty, and in this context urges the re-establishment of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban in 1992 with an appropriate mandate;

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

4/ Ibid., vol. 729, No. 10485.

Reoueata the Conference on Disarmament, in this context, to intensify its substantive work on specific and interrelated test-ban issues, including structure and scope and verification and compliance, taking also into account all relevant proposals and future initiatives;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament:

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To take into account the progress achieved by the Ad Hoc Group of

Scientific Experts to Consider International Cooperative Measures to Detect and Identify Seismic Events, including the experience gained from the technical test concerning the global exchange and analysis of seismic data, and other relevant initiatives;

To continue efforts to establish, with the widest possible participation, 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;

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To investigate other measures to monitor and verify compliance with such a treaty, including on-site inspections, satellite monitoring and an international network to monitor atmospheric radioactivity;

Urges :

The nuclear-weapon States to agree promptly to appropriate verifiable and militarily significant interim measures, with a view to concluding a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty;

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

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to report to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session on progress made;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-seventh session an item entitled "Comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty".