The Role of Science and Technology in the Context of International Security, Disarmament and Other Related Fields

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 63 Role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields, published in 1994.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1992–1997

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/51/40

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1997	A/RES/51/40	The role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields	171	99%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/63	The role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields	171	22%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/67	The role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields	590	—
1992	A/RES/47/44	The role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Agenda Armaments Disarmament Guidelines Information Exchange International Security Military Applications Military Technology Science and Technology Technology Transfer

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/48/42).

Ibid., para. 31.

A/48/360.

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" in 1994 and to submit as soon as possible specific recommendations on this matter to the General Assembly;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to pursue constructively in response to General Assembly resolution 46/36 L of 9 December 1991 its work on the agenda item entitled "Transparency in armaments", which includes consideration of the elaboration of practical means to increase openness and transparency related to the transfer of high technology with military applications;

Invites Member States to undertake additional efforts to apply science and technology for disarmament-related purposes and to make disarmament-related technologies available to interested States;

Also invites Member States to widen multilateral dialogue, bearing in mind the proposal for seeking universally acceptable norms or guidelines that would regulate international transfers of high technology with military applications;

Encourages the United Nations to contribute, within existing mandates, to promoting the application of science and technology for peaceful purposes;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth session the item entitled "The role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields".

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