Prohibition of the Development and Manufacture of New Types of Weapons of Mass Destruction and New Systems of Such Weapons Report of the Conference on Disarmament

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 60 Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : report of the Conference on Disarmament, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1994–1997

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1997	A/RES/51/37	Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons report of the Conference on Disarmament :	333	75%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/61	Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons report of the Conference on Disarmament :	370	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Disarmament Negotiations Recommendations Weapons of Mass Destruction

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that effective measures should be taken to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament, without prejudice to further overview of its agenda, to keep the matter under review, as appropriate, with a view to making, when necessary, recommendations on undertaking specific negotiations on identified types of such weapons;

Calls upon all States, immediately following any recommendations of the Conference on Disarmament, to give favourable consideration to those recommendations;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference on Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this item by the General Assembly at its fifty-first session;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to report the results of any consideration of the matter in its annual reports to the General Assembly;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled "Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament".

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