Renewed Determination Towards the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 89 General and complete disarmament, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2006–2010

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/64/47

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2010	A/RES/64/47	Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons	1,422	68%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/73	Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons	1,253	85%Compare
2008	A/RES/62/37	Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons	1,097	94%Compare
2007	A/RES/61/74	Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons	1,046	86%Compare
2006	A/RES/60/65	Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons	977	–

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the importance of all States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons1 complying with their obligations under all the articles of the Treaty;

Stresses the importance of an effective Treaty review process, welcoming the substantive discussions held at the second session of the Preparatory Committee in 2008, and calls upon all States parties to the Treaty to work together to ensure that the third session of the Preparatory Committee, in 2009, is held constructively, in order to facilitate the successful outcome of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;

Reaffirms the importance of the universality of the Treaty, and calls upon States not parties to the Treaty to accede to it as non-nuclear-weapon States without delay and without conditions, and pending their accession to refrain from acts that would defeat the objective and purpose of the Treaty as well as to take practical steps in support of the Treaty;

Encourages further steps leading to nuclear disarmament, to which all States parties to the Treaty are committed under article VI of the Treaty, including deeper reductions in all types of nuclear weapons, and emphasizes the importance of applying irreversibility and verifiability, as well as increased transparency in a way that promotes international stability and undiminished security for all, in the process of working towards the elimination of nuclear weapons;

Calls upon all nuclear-weapon States to undertake reductions of nuclear weapons in a transparent manner, and invites all nuclear-weapon States to agree on transparency and confidence-building measures, while noting in this regard the increased transparency recently demonstrated by nuclear-weapon States on their nuclear arsenals, including the current number of their nuclear warheads;

Encourages the Russian Federation and the United States of America to implement fully the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions,⁶ which should serve as a step for further nuclear disarmament, and to undertake nuclear arms reductions beyond those provided for by the Treaty, including through the conclusion of a legally binding successor to the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START I),⁷ which is due to expire in 2009, while welcoming the progress made by nuclear-weapon States, including the Russian Federation and the United States of America, on nuclear arms reductions;

⁶United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2350, No. 42195.

⁷The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 16: 1991 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.92.IX.1), appendix II.

Encourages States to continue to pursue efforts, within the framework of international cooperation, contributing to the reduction of nuclear-weapons-related materials;

Calls for the nuclear-weapon States to further reduce the operational status of nuclear weapons systems in ways that promote international stability and security;

Stresses the necessity of a diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies to minimize the risk that these weapons will ever be used and to facilitate the process of their total elimination, in a way that promotes international stability and based on the principle of undiminished security for all;

Urges all States that have not yet done so to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty⁸ at the earliest opportunity with a view to its early entry into force, stresses the importance of maintaining existing moratoriums on nuclear-weapon test explosions pending the entry into force of the Treaty, and reaffirms the importance of the continued development of the Treaty verification regime, including the international monitoring system, which will be required to provide assurance of compliance with the Treaty;

⁸See resolution 50/245.

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to immediately resume its substantive work to its fullest, considering the developments of this year in the Conference;

Emphasizes the importance of the immediate commencement of negotiations on a fissile material cut-off treaty in the Conference on Disarmament and its early conclusion, and calls upon all nuclear-weapon States and States not parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to declare moratoriums on the production of fissile material for any nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices pending the entry into force of the Treaty;

Calls upon all States to redouble their efforts to prevent and curb the proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery;

Stresses the importance of further efforts for non-proliferation, including the universalization of the International Atomic Energy Agency comprehensive safeguards agreements, while also strongly encouraging further works for achieving the universalization of the Model Protocol Additional to the Agreement(s) between State(s) and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards approved by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency on 15 May 1997,⁹ and the full implementation of relevant Security Council resolutions, including resolution 1540 (2004) of 28 April 2004;

⁹International Atomic Energy Agency, INFCIRC/540 (Corrected).

Encourages all States to undertake concrete activities to implement, as appropriate, the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education, submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session,¹⁰ and to voluntarily share information on efforts they have been undertaking to that end;

¹⁰A/57/124.

Encourages the constructive role played by civil society in promoting nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fourth session an item entitled “Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons”.

Renewed Determination Towards the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

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