Role of Science and Technology in the Context of International Security and Disarmament

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66 Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament, published in 1999.

What other versions does this mandate have?

18 versions · 1999–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/22

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/22	Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament	763	99%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/23	Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament	761	99%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/22	Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament	768	93%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/43	Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament	757	99%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/24	Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament	757	99%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

9 reports · 2018–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/246	Current developments in science and technology and their potential impact on international security and disarmament efforts report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/22
2025	A/80/237	Current developments in science and technology and their potential impact on international security and disarmament efforts report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/23
2024	A/79/224	Current developments in science and technology and their potential impact on international security and disarmament efforts report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/22
2023	A/78/268	Current developments in science and technology and their potential impact on international security and disarmament efforts report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/43
2022	A/77/188	Current developments in science and technology and their potential impact on international security and disarmament efforts report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/24

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Disarmament Dual-Use Technology Guidelines International Security Military Technology Recommendations Science and Technology Technology Transfer

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Affirms that scientific and technological progress should be used for the benefit of all mankind to promote the sustainable economic and social development of all States and to safeguard international security, and that international cooperation in the use of science and technology through the transfer and exchange of technological know-how for peaceful purposes should be promoted;

Invites Member States to undertake additional efforts to apply science and technology for disarmament-related purposes and to make disarmament-related technologies available to interested States;

Urges Member States to undertake multilateral negotiations with the participation of all interested States in order to establish universally acceptable, non-discriminatory guidelines for international transfers of dual-use goods and technologies and high technology with military applications;

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament,³ and requests the Secretary-General to seek the views of the Member States on that report and to make recommendations on the possible approaches to multilaterally negotiated, universally acceptable, non-discriminatory guidelines for international transfers of dual-use goods and technologies and high technologies with military applications, in a report to be submitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly no later than at its fifty-fourth session;

³2 A/53/202.

Encourages United Nations bodies to contribute, within existing mandates, to promoting the application of science and technology for peaceful purposes;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament”.

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