Bilateral Strategic Nuclear Arms Reductions and the New Strategic Framework

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/59/94

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2004	A/RES/59/94	Bilateral strategic nuclear arms reductions and the new strategic framework	854	20%Compare
2002	A/RES/57/68	Bilateral strategic nuclear arms reductions and the new strategic framework	570	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Arms Limitation Conferences Confidence-Building Measures Consultations Counter-Terrorism Disarmament Agreements Information Exchange International Security Nuclear Non-Proliferation Partnership Russian Federation Strategic Nuclear Weapons Systems Transparency in Armaments United States Weapons of Mass Destruction

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the commitment of the two countries to strategic nuclear warhead reductions in the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions (“the Moscow Treaty”), signed on 24 May 2002,2 which is an important result of this new bilateral strategic relationship and which will help to establish more favourable conditions for actively promoting security and cooperation and enhancing international stability;

Looks forward to the entry into force of the Moscow Treaty at the earliest possible date;

Notes with satisfaction the Joint Declaration signed by the United States of America and the Russian Federation in Moscow on 24 May 2002,2 which, inter alia, created the Consultative Group for Strategic Security, chaired by Foreign and Defence Ministers, through which the United States of America and the Russian Federation will strengthen mutual confidence, expand transparency, share information and plans and discuss strategic issues of mutual interest;

Recognizes that the Group of Eight Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, launched by leaders at the Kananaskis Summit, held at Kananaskis, Canada, on 26 and 27 June 2002, will enhance international security and safety by supporting specific cooperation projects, initially in the Russian Federation, to address non-proliferation, disarmament, counter-terrorism and nuclear safety issues;

Invites all countries, as appropriate, to join the Group of Eight commitment to the non-proliferation principles endorsed by the Group of Eight leaders at the Kananaskis Summit aimed at preventing terrorists, or those who harbour them, from acquiring or developing nuclear, chemical, radiological and biological weapons, missiles, and related materials, equipment and technology;

Invites the United States of America and the Russian Federation to keep other States Members of the United Nations duly informed of their strategic offensive reductions;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session an item entitled “Bilateral strategic nuclear arms reductions and the new strategic framework”.

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