Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 79 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

30 versions · 1991–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/70

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/70	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	1,098	90%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/77	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	1,075	88%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/66	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	983	88%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/94	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	903	88%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/66	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	988	90%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

13 reports · 2005–2016

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2016	A/71/134/Add.1	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General : addendum	A/RES/70/73
2016	A/71/134	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/73
2015	A/70/171	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/69/81
2014	A/69/137	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/68
2012	A/67/137/Add.1	Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty report of the Secretary-General : addendum	A/RES/66/64

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Nuclear Weapon Tests Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties Verification

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Stresses the importance and urgency of signature and ratification, without delay and without conditions and in accordance with constitutional processes, to achieve the earliest entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty;

Welcomes the contributions by the States signatories to the work of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, in particular to its efforts to ensure that the Treaty’s verification regime will be capable of meeting the verification requirements of the Treaty upon its entry into force, in accordance with article IV of the Treaty;

Urges States to maintain their moratoria on nuclear-weapons test explosions or any other nuclear explosions, pending the entry into force of the Treaty;

Urges all States that have not yet signed the Treaty to sign and ratify it as soon as possible and to refrain from acts that would defeat its object and purpose in the meanwhile;

Urges all States that have signed but not yet ratified the Treaty, in particular those whose ratification is needed for its entry into force, to accelerate their ratification processes with a view to their earliest successful conclusion;

Urges all States to remain seized of the issue at the highest political level;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session the item entitled “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty”.

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