Compliance with Arms Limitation and Disarmament Agreements

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 57 Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament obligations, published in 1996.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1990–1996

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1996	A/RES/50/60	Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament agreements	619	86%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/63	Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament agreements	604	88%Compare
1991	A/RES/46/26	Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament agreements	598	—
1990	A/RES/44/122	Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament agreements	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Arms Limitation Confidence-Building Measures Disarmament Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Disarmament Research International Security Verification

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Urges all States parties to arms limitation and disarmament agreements to implement and comply with the entirety of the spirit and all provisions of such agreements;

Calls upon all Member States to give serious consideration to the implications that non-compliance with any provisions of arms limitation and disarmament obligations has for international security and stability, as well as for the prospects for further progress in the field of disarmament;

Also calls upon all Member States to support efforts aimed at the resolution of compliance questions by means consistent with such agreements and international law, with a view to encouraging strict observance by all parties of the provisions of arms limitation and disarmament agreements and maintaining or restoring the integrity of such agreements;

Welcomes the role that the United Nations has played in restoring the integrity of, and fostering negotiations on, certain arms limitation and disarmament agreements and in the removal of threats to peace;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide assistance that may be necessary in restoring and protecting the integrity of arms limitation and disarmament agreements;

Encourages efforts by States parties to develop additional cooperative measures, as appropriate, that can increase confidence in compliance with existing arms limitation and disarmament obligations and reduce the possibility of misinterpretation and misunderstanding;

Notes the contribution that verification experiments and research can make and already have made in confirming and improving verification procedures for arms limitation and disarmament agreements under study or negotiation, thereby providing an opportunity, from the time that such agreements enter into force, for enhancing confidence in the effectiveness of verification procedures as a basis for determining compliance;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-second session the item entitled "Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament obligations".

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