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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 78 Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session, published in 1999.

What else is in this group?

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 subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Arms Limitation Conference and Meeting Services Conventional Weapons Disarmament Disarmament Negotiations Guidelines Language Services Meeting Records Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones

What’s in this document?

22 operative paragraphs

A

Takes note of the report of the Disarmament Commission;1

Commends the Disarmament Commission for the successful conclusion of its consideration of the items entitled “The establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the region concerned” and “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”, and endorses the consensus texts adopted thereon;

Notes with regret that the Disarmament Commission was not able to reach a consensus on the item entitled “The fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament”;

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;

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,³ 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”;⁴

³Resolution S–10/2.

⁴A/CN.10/137.

Recommends that the Disarmament Commission, at its 1999 organizational session, adopt the following items for consideration at its 2000 substantive session:

To be considered at the organizational session of the Disarmament Commission;⁵

⁵In accordance with General Assembly decision 52/492.

To be considered at the organizational session of the Disarmament Commission;4

Requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding three weeks during 2000 and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament,⁶ together with all the official records of the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implementing the present resolution;

⁶Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/54/27).

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-fifth session the item entitled “Report of the Disarmament Commission”.

B

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

Urges 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;

Welcomes the decision of the Conference on Disarmament on 5 August 1999 to admit five new members,⁷ and notes that the Conference recognizes the importance of continuing consultations on the question of the expansion of its membership;

⁷Ibid., para. 16.

Also welcomes the strong collective interest of the Conference on Disarmament in commencing substantive work as soon as possible during its 2000 session;

Further welcomes the undertaking by the current President of the Conference on Disarmament to conduct consultations jointly with the incoming President during the inter-sessional period to try to achieve this goal, as expressed in his statement contained in paragraph 38 of the report of the Conference;5

Encourages the Conference on Disarmament to continue 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-fifth session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fifth session the item entitled “Report of the Conference on Disarmament”.

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