Convening of the 4th Special Session of the General Assembly Devoted to Disarmament

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 65dd Convening of the 4th special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, published in 2004.

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21 versions · 1985–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/30

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/30	Convening of the 4th special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament	591	98%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/44	Convening of the 4th special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament	584	91%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/24	Convening of the 4th special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament	537	98%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/46	Convening of the 4th Special Session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament	531	98%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/38	Convening of the 4th special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament	525	98%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Conferences Consultations Disarmament Resources Allocation

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Decides to establish an open-ended working group, working on the basis of consensus, to consider the objectives and agenda, including the possible establishment of the preparatory committee, for the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, taking note of the paper presented by the Chairman of Working Group II during the 1999 substantive session of the Disarmament Commission⁶ and the written proposals and views submitted by Member States as contained in the working papers presented during the three substantive sessions of the Open-ended Working Group in 2003,⁷ as well as the reports of the Secretary-General regarding the views of Member States on the objectives, agenda and timing of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament;⁸

⁶Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/54/42), annex II.

⁷See A/AC.268/2003/WP.2.

⁸A/55/130 and Add.1, A/56/166 and A/57/120.

Requests the Open-ended Working Group to hold an organizational session in order to set the dates for its substantive sessions in 2006, and to submit a report on its work, including possible substantive recommendations, before the end of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly;

Requests the Secretary-General, within existing resources, to provide the Open-ended Working Group with the necessary assistance and services as may be required to discharge its tasks;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session the item entitled “Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament”.

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