Report of the Disarmament Commission

A/RES/59/105View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 67d Report of the Disarmament Commission, published in 2004.

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33 versions · 1960–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/66

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/66	Report of the Disarmament Commission	1,122	94%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/72	Report of the Disarmament Commission	1,072	85%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/62	Report of the Disarmament Commission	1,100	77%Compare
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2018	A/RES/73/82	Report of the Disarmament Commission	1,088	77%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Conference and Meeting Services Coordination Within UN System Disarmament Institutional Machinery Language Services Meeting Records Report Preparation Subsidiary Bodies

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Disarmament Commission;1

Reaffirms the importance of further enhancing the dialogue and cooperation among the First Committee of the General Assembly, the Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament;

Also reaffirms the role of the Disarmament Commission as the specialized, deliberative body within the United Nations multilateral disarmament machinery that allows for in-depth deliberations on specific disarmament issues, leading to the submission of concrete recommendations on those issues;

Requests the Disarmament Commission to continue its work in accordance with its mandate, as set forth in paragraph 118 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly,³ and with paragraph 3 of Assembly resolution 37/78 H of 9 December 1982, and to that end to make every effort to achieve specific recommendations on the items on its agenda, taking into account the adopted “Ways and means to enhance the functioning of the Disarmament Commission”;⁴

³Resolution S-10/2.

⁴A/CN.10/137.

Recommends that the Disarmament Commission consider the following items at its 2005 substantive session:

[To be determined];

Requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding three weeks during 2005, namely, from 18 July to 5 August, and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament,⁵ together with all the official records of the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implementing the present resolution;

⁵Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/59/27).

Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure full provision to the Disarmament Commission and its subsidiary bodies of interpretation and translation facilities in the official languages and to assign, as a matter of priority, all the necessary resources and services, including verbatim records, to that end;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session the item entitled “Report of the Disarmament Commission”.

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