Scientific and Technological Developments and Their Impact on International Security

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 62 Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security, published in 1994.

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7 documents · 1990–1994

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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6 subjects

Agenda International Security New Technologies Science and Technology Technological Change Technology Assessment

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8 operative paragraphs

See A/45/568.

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

Takes note also of the interim report of the Secretary-General 3/ submitted in pursuance of its resolution 45/60 of 4 December 1990;

Fully agrees that:

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 to this purpose;

Calls upon the Disarmament Commission to conclude its work on the agenda item entitled "The role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields" and to submit to the General Assembly its recommendations in this regard;

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-ninth session a framework for technology assessment guided, inter alia, by the criteria suggested in his report; 2/

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

A/45/568.

A/47/355.

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