The Risk of Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East

A/RES/59/106View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 68 Risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, published in 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

32 versions · 1995–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/67

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/67	The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East	1,085	99%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/74	The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East	1,083	99%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/63	The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East	1,085	99%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/91	The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East	1,085	99%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/63	The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East	1,085	99%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

19 reports · 2003–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/130 (Part II)	The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/74
2024	A/79/139 (Part II)	The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/63
2023	A/78/205 (Part II)	The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/91
2022	A/77/153 (Part II)	The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/63
2021	A/76/190 (Part II)	The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/84

What subjects does this mandate have?

12 subjects

Confidence-Building Measures Israel Middle East Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Facilities Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Safeguards Nuclear Weapon Tests Nuclear Weapons Regional Security Report Preparation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the conclusions on the Middle East of the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;⁸

⁸See 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, vol. I (NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts I and II)), part I, section entitled “Article VII and the security of non-nuclear-weapon States”, para. 16.

Reaffirms the importance of Israel’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons5 and placement of all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, in realizing the goal of universal adherence to the Treaty in the Middle East;

Calls upon that State to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons without further delay and not to develop, produce, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, and to renounce possession of nuclear weapons, and to place all its unsafeguarded nuclear facilities under full-scope International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards as an important confidence-building measure among all States of the region and as a step towards enhancing peace and security;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session the item entitled “The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East”.

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