Relationship Between Disarmament and Development

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 90k Relationship between disarmament and development, published in 2007.

What other versions does this mandate have?

34 versions · 1983–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/25

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/25	Relationship between disarmament and development	847	98%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/43	Relationship between disarmament and development	839	98%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/23	Relationship between disarmament and development	835	99%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/45	Relationship between disarmament and development	829	99%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/37	Relationship between disarmament and development	823	99%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

22 reports · 2005–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/160	Relationship between disarmament and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/25
2025	A/80/125	Relationship between disarmament and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/43
2024	A/79/124	Relationship between disarmament and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/23
2023	A/78/128	Relationship between disarmament and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/45
2022	A/77/114	Relationship between disarmament and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/37

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 subjects

Arms Limitation Coordination Within UN System Development Finance Disarmament Disarmament Agreements Disarmament-Development Link Economic Gap Groups of Experts Humanitarian Assistance Inter-Agency Cooperation Non-Governmental Organizations Peace Dividend Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Regional Organizations Report Preparation Research Centres Resources Allocation

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Stresses the central role of the United Nations in the disarmament-development relationship, and requests the Secretary-General to strengthen further the role of the Organization in this field, in particular the high-level Steering Group on Disarmament and Development, in order to assure continued and effective coordination and close cooperation between the relevant United Nations departments, agencies and sub-agencies;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take action, through appropriate organs and within available resources, for the implementation of the action programme adopted at the 1987 International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development;Error: Reference source not found

Urges the international community to devote part of the resources made available by the implementation of disarmament and arms limitation agreements to economic and social development, with a view to reducing the ever-widening gap between developed and developing countries;

Encourages the international community to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to make reference to the contribution that disarmament could provide in meeting them when it reviews its progress towards this purpose in 2006, as well as to make greater efforts to integrate disarmament, humanitarian and development activities;

Encourages the relevant regional and subregional organizations and institutions, non-governmental organizations and research institutes to incorporate issues related to the relationship between disarmament and development in their agendas and, in this regard, to take into account the report of the Group of Governmental Experts on the relationship between disarmament and development;Error: Reference source not found

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

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session the item entitled “Relationship between disarmament and development”.

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