Reduction of Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66 General and complete disarmament, published in 2002.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2002–2004

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/58/50

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2004	A/RES/58/50	Reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons	726	56%Compare
2002	A/RES/57/58	Reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons	493	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Arms Limitation Confidence-Building Measures Disarmament Negotiations International Instruments Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Safety Nuclear Weapon States Russian Federation Tactical Nuclear Weapons Transparency in Armaments United States Verification

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Agrees that reductions and elimination of non-strategic nuclear weapons should be included as an integral part of the nuclear-arms reduction and disarmament process;

Agrees also that reductions of non-strategic nuclear weapons should be carried out in a transparent, verifiable and irreversible manner;

Agrees further on the importance of preserving, reaffirming, implementing and building upon the 1991 and 1992 presidential nuclear initiatives of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Russian Federation on non-strategic nuclear weapons;

Calls upon the Russian Federation and the United States of America to formalize their presidential nuclear initiatives into legal instruments and to initiate negotiations on further effectively verifiable reductions of their non-strategic nuclear weapons;

Stresses the importance of special security and physical protection measures for the transport and storage of non-strategic nuclear weapons, and calls upon all nuclear-weapon States in possession of such weapons to take the necessary steps in this regard;

Calls for further confidence-building and transparency measures to reduce the threats posed by non-strategic nuclear weapons;

Calls also for concrete agreed measures to reduce further the operational status of non-strategic nuclear weapons systems;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session an item entitled “Reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons”.

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