Review of the Implementation of the Recommendations and Decisions Adopted by the General Assembly at Its 10th Special Session Resolutions

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 72 Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session, published in 1996.

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120 documents · 1979–2002

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2002	A/RES/56/26	Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session resolutions	829	–
2001	A/RES/55/35	Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session resolutions	1,167	–
1999	A/RES/54/56	Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session	932	–
1999	A/RES/53/79	Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session	1,162	–
1997	A/RES/52/40[C]	Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session resolutions	—	–

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38 operative paragraphs

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Reaffirms the role of the Conference on Disarmament as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community;

Welcomes the determination of the Conference on Disarmament to fulfil that role in the light of the evolving international situation, with a view to making early substantive progress on priority items of its agenda;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to continue as the highest priority task its negotiations to conclude a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty;

Acknowledges decision CD 1356 taken by the Conference on Disarmament on 21 September 1995³ regarding its composition and the commitment to implement that decision at the earliest possible date;

³Ibid., para. 14.

Encourages the review of the agenda and methods of work of the Conference on Disarmament;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to make every effort to reach a consensus on its programme of work at the beginning of its 1996 session;

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

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to submit a report on its work to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first session the item entitled "Report of the Conference on Disarmament".

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Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the observance of Disarmament Week;⁶

⁶A/50/291.

Commends all States, international and national governmental and non-governmental organizations for their active support for and participation in Disarmament Week;

Invites all States that so desire, in carrying out appropriate measures at the local level on the occasion of Disarmament Week, to take into account the elements of the model programme for Disarmament Week prepared by the Secretary-General;⁷

⁷A/34/436.

Invites Governments and international and national non-governmental organizations to continue to take an active part in Disarmament Week;

Invites the Secretary-General to continue to use the United Nations informational organs as widely as possible to promote better understanding among the world public of disarmament problems and the objectives of Disarmament Week;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fifth session the item entitled "Disarmament Week".

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Recalls the report of 12 August 1993 of the Special Coordinator for Membership⁸ designated by the Conference on Disarmament and the subsequent statement made by the Special Coordinator on 26 August 1993, recommending a dynamic solution to the question of membership;

⁸See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/48/27), para. 13 (incorporating document CD/1214).

Recognizes the legitimate aspirations of all countries that have applied for membership to participate fully in the work of the Conference on Disarmament;

Acknowledges decision CD/1356, taken at the 719th plenary meeting of the Conference on Disarmament on 21 September 1995, 2/ including the commitment to implement the decision at the earliest possible date;

Calls for the implementation of decision CD/1356 on the expansion of membership of the Conference on Disarmament on an urgent basis;

Strongly urges that the new members should, in pursuance of decision CD/1356 and with particular reference to the provisions contained in the second paragraph of that decision, all assume together membership of the Conference at the start of the 1996 session of the Conference;

Calls on the Conference on Disarmament, in accordance with its decision CD/1356, to review the situation following the presentation of progress reports by the President of the Conference on ongoing consultations at the end of each part of its annual session;

Urges that, following the presentation of progress reports by the President of the Conference, the other candidatures to date be further considered by the Conference at its 1996 session.

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Takes note of the annual report of the Disarmament Commission; 8/

Notes with regret that the Disarmament Commission was unable to achieve agreement on guidelines and recommendations under its agenda item entitled "Process of nuclear disarmament in the framework of international peace and security, with the objective of the elimination of nuclear weapons" and on recommendations under its agenda item entitled "Review of the Declaration of the 1990s as the Third Disarmament Decade", both of which were concluded in 1995;

Notes the progress made and continuing consideration by the Disarmament Commission of its agenda item entitled "International arms transfers, with particular reference to General Assembly resolution 46/36 H of 6 December 1991", which is to be concluded in 1996;

Reaffirms the importance of further enhancing the dialogue and cooperation among the First Committee, the Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament;

Also reaffirms the role of the Disarmament Commission as the specialized, deliberative body within the United Nations multilateral disarmament machinery that allows for in-depth deliberations on specific disarmament issues, leading to the submission of concrete recommendations on those issues;

Encourages the Disarmament Commission to continue to make every effort to enhance its working methods so as to enable it to give focused consideration to a limited number of priority issues in the field of disarmament, bearing in mind the decision it has taken to move its agenda towards a three-item phased approach;

Requests the Disarmament Commission to continue its work in accordance with its mandate, as set forth in paragraph 118 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly,¹⁰ and with paragraph 3 of Assembly resolution 37/78 H of 9 December 1982, and to that end to make every effort to achieve specific recommendations on the items on its agenda, taking into account the adopted "Ways and means to enhance the functioning of the Disarmament Commission";¹¹

¹⁰Resolution S-10/2.

¹¹A/CN.10/137 of 27 April 1990.

Recommends that, pursuant to the adopted three-item phased approach, the Disarmament Commission, at its 1995 organizational session, adopt the following items for consideration at its 1996 substantive session:

International arms transfers, with particular reference to General Assembly resolution 46/36 H of 6 December 1991;

[to be added];¹²

¹²The new item will be decided by the Disarmament Commission at its 1995 organizational session.

[to be added]; 11/

Requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding four weeks during 1996 and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament, 1/ together with all the official records of the fiftieth session of the General Assembly relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implementing the present resolution;

Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure full provision to the Commission and its subsidiary bodies of interpretation and translation facilities in the official languages and to assign, as a matter of priority, all the necessary resources and services, including verbatim records, to that end;

Further requests the Secretary-General to prepare a compilation, in the format of a note by the Secretary-General, of all texts of principles, guidelines or recommendations on subject items that have been unanimously adopted by the Disarmament Commission since its inception in 1978;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first session the item entitled "Report of the Disarmament Commission".

Review of the Implementation of the Recommendations and Decisions Adopted by the General Assembly at Its 10th Special Session Resolutions

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