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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 73 Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session, 73a Report of the Disarmament Commission and 73b Report of the Conference on Disarmament, published in 1997.

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120 documents · 1979–2002

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2002).

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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What’s in this document?

30 operative paragraphs

A

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;

Also welcomes the desire of the Conference on Disarmament to promote substantive progress during its 1998 session, and expresses the hope that appropriate consultations during the inter-sessional period could lead to the commencement of early work on various agenda items;

Encourages the Conference on Disarmament to continue the further review of its membership;

Also encourages the Conference on Disarmament to intensify further the ongoing review of its agenda and methods of work;

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-third session;

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

B

Takes note of the report of the Disarmament Commission;2

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,⁴ 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 of its agenda, taking into account the adopted "Ways and means to enhance the functioning of the Disarmament Commission";⁵

⁴Resolution S-10/2.

⁵A/CN.10/137.

Welcomes the fact that, pursuant to the adopted three-item phased approach, the Disarmament Commission, at its 1997 organizational session, adopted the following items for consideration at its 1998 substantive session:

The establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the region concerned;

The fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament;

Guidelines on conventional arms control/limitation and disarmament, with particular emphasis on consolidation of peace in the context of General Assembly resolution 51/45 N of 10 December 1996;

Requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding four weeks during 1998 and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third 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 fifty-second 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 Disarmament 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;

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

C

Affirms the vision of promoting international peace and security set out in the Charter of the United Nations and its provisions concerning the non-use of force and the threat of force;

Underlines the necessity of furthering the objectives of promoting disarmament and regulating armaments set out in the Charter, on the basis of negotiations reflecting the security interests of all States;

Reiterates that the adoption and implementation of disarmament measures should take place in such an equitable and balanced manner as to ensure the right of each State to security and to ensure that no individual State or group of States may obtain advantage over others;

Affirms its support for the objectives of nuclear and conventional disarmament, as set out in the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly,3 the first special session devoted to disarmament;

Reiterates that nuclear disarmament has the highest priority in efforts to advance disarmament on a universal basis;

Reaffirms its support for the United Nations machinery on disarmament, which is functioning pursuant to the decisions adopted at the tenth special session of the General Assembly;

Also reaffirms that the Conference on Disarmament is the sole multilateral negotiating body on disarmament;

Affirms that the implementation of international treaties dealing with disarmament should be carried out in accordance with the provisions of those treaties and that questions regarding compliance should be addressed in accordance with those provisions and the mechanisms established or envisaged in those provisions;

Also affirms that the Secretariat should support the realization of the objectives of disarmament, as set out in the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, which was adopted by consensus.

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

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