Reducing Nuclear Danger

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 73x Reducing nuclear danger, published in 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

28 versions · 1999–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/37

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/37	Reducing nuclear danger	618	99%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/33	Reducing nuclear danger	616	99%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/44	Reducing nuclear danger	618	99%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/74	Reducing nuclear danger	618	99%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/27	Reducing nuclear danger	618	99%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

21 reports · 2002–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/163	Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/33
2024	A/79/137	Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/44
2023	A/78/118	Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/74
2022	A/77/123	Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/27
2021	A/76/117	Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/57

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Conferences Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Weapon States Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Weapons Use Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Calls for a review of nuclear doctrines and, in this context, immediate and urgent steps to reduce the risks of unintentional and accidental use of nuclear weapons;

Requests the five nuclear-weapon States to take measures towards the implementation of paragraph 1 above;

Calls upon Member States to take the necessary measures to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects and to promote nuclear disarmament, with the objective of eliminating nuclear weapons;

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to paragraph 5 of General Assembly resolution 57/84 of 22 November 2002;⁵

⁵A/58/162 and Add.1.

Requests the Secretary-General to intensify efforts and support initiatives that would contribute towards the full implementation of the seven recommendations identified in the report of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters that would significantly reduce the risk of nuclear war,⁶ and also to continue to encourage Member States to endeavour to create conditions that would allow the emergence of an international consensus to hold an international conference as proposed in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,3 to identify ways of eliminating nuclear dangers, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session;

⁶See A/56/400, para. 3.

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session the item entitled “Reducing nuclear danger”.

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