Report of the Disarmament Commission

A/RES/53/79[A]View PDF

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 and 73a Report of the Disarmament Commission, published in 1999.

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33 versions · 1960–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/66

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/66	Report of the Disarmament Commission	1,122	94%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/72	Report of the Disarmament Commission	1,072	85%Compare
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6 subjects

Agenda Disarmament Language Services Meeting Records Recommendations Work Organization

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14 operative paragraphs

A/RES/53/79 [A]

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Takes note of the report of the Disarmament Commission;1

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

Reaffirms also 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;

Commends the Disarmament Commission for the successful conclusion of the review of its work in accordance with General Assembly resolution 52/12 B of 19 December 1997 at the resumed session of the First Committee in June 1998, resulting in the adoption of Assembly decision 52/492 of 8 September 1998;

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 two-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, 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”;

Notes that the Disarmament Commission, at its 1998 organizational session, adopted the following items for consideration at its 1999 substantive session:

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

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;

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

Requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding three weeks during 1999 and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament, together with all the official records of the fifty-third 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-fourth session the item entitled “Report of the Disarmament Commission”.

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