Reduction of Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 73c Reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons, published in 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2002–2004

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?

15 subjects

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

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

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

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

Further agrees on the importance of preserving, reaffirming and implementing 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 reductions of such weapons;

Stresses the importance of the enhancement of special security and physical protection measures for the transport and storage of non-strategic nuclear weapons, their components and related materials through, inter alia, the placing of such weapons in physically secure central storage sites, with a view to their removal and subsequent elimination by the nuclear-weapon States as a part of the nuclear disarmament process to which they are committed under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,2 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;

Also calls for concrete agreed measures to reduce further the operational status of non-strategic nuclear weapons systems so as to reduce the risk of use of non-strategic nuclear weapons;

Stresses the need for an undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States that possess such weapons not to increase the number or types of weapons deployed and not to develop new types of these weapons or rationalizations for their use;

Calls for the prohibition of those types of non-strategic nuclear weapons that have already been removed from the arsenals of some nuclear-weapon States and the development of transparency mechanisms for the verification of the elimination of these weapons;

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

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