Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 65 Comprehensive test-ban treaty, published in 1996.

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?

9 subjects

Conference and Meeting Services Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Weapon States Nuclear Weapon Tests Participants Verification

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the continuing efforts in the multilateral negotiations on a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty in the Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban of the Conference on Disarmament, the significant contributions to the rolling text made by States participating in those negotiations and progress in key areas;

Calls upon all States participating in the Conference on Disarmament, in particular the nuclear-weapon States, to conclude, as a task of the highest priority, a universal and multilaterally and effectively verifiable comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty which contributes to nuclear disarmament and the prevention of the proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects, so as to enable its signature by the outset of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly;

Also calls upon participants in the Conference on Disarmament to advance work on the basis of the rolling text during the inter-sessional negotiating period so as to proceed to the final phase of the negotiations at the beginning of 1996;

Further calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to re-establish the Ad Hoc Committee at the commencement of its 1996 session, and to renew its mandate in order to complete the final text of the treaty as soon as possible in 1996;

Urges all States to support the multilateral negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty and their prompt conclusion;

Declares its readiness to resume consideration of this item, as necessary, before its fifty-first session in order to endorse the text of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the provision to the Conference on Disarmament of adequate administrative, substantive and conference support services for these negotiations;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first session an item entitled "Implementation of the comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty".

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