Prohibition of the Development and Manufacture of New Types of Weapons of Mass Destruction and New Systems of Such Weapons Report of the Conference on Disarmament

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 57 Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, published in 1994.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1994–1997

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/51/37

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1997	A/RES/51/37	Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons report of the Conference on Disarmament :	333	75%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/61	Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons report of the Conference on Disarmament :	370	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Disarmament Agreements Radiological Weapons Weapons of Mass Destruction Weapons Systems

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that effective measures should be taken to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction;

Resolution S-10/2.

The definition was adopted by the Commission for Conventional Armaments (see S/C.3/32/Rev.1).

Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/47/27), sect. III.G; and ibid., Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/48/27), sect. III.F.

Requests the Conference on Disarmament, in the light of its existing priorities, to keep under review, with expert assistance, as appropriate, the questions of the prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons with a view to making, when necessary, recommendations on undertaking specific negotiations on the identified types of such weapons;

Calls upon all States, immediately following the recommendation of the Conference on Disarmament, to give favourable consideration to those recommendations;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference on Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this item by the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to continue the practice of reporting the results of its consideration of these questions in its annual report to the General Assembly;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first session the item entitled "Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament".

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