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 96y Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons, published in 2010.

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5 versions · 2006–2010

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	–

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18 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the importance of all States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsError: Reference source not found complying with their obligations under all the articles of the Treaty;

Stresses the importance of an effective Treaty review process, and calls upon all States parties to the Treaty to work together so that the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons can successfully strengthen the Treaty regime and can establish effective and practical measures in all the Treaty’s three pillars;

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 the Treaty, to adhere to its terms as well as to take practical steps in support of the Treaty;

Encourages further steps leading to nuclear disarmament, in accordance with article VI of the Treaty, including deeper reductions in all types of nuclear weapons, and emphasizes the importance of applying the principles of 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 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 fully implement the obligations under the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions⁵ and to undertake further steps in nuclear disarmament with greater transparency, including the conclusion of a legally binding successor to the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START I),⁶ which is due to expire in December 2009, while welcoming the progress that has been made recently;

⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2350, No. 42195.

⁶The 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 upon the nuclear-weapon States to take measures to reduce the risk of an accidental or unauthorized launch of nuclear weapons and to also consider further reducing 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 Treaty⁷ at the earliest opportunity with a view to its early entry into force and universalization, stresses the importance of maintaining existing moratoriums on nuclear-weapon test explosions or any other nuclear 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;

⁷See resolution 50/245.

Welcomes the adoption by the Conference on Disarmament of a programme of work for its 2009 session,⁸ and calls upon the Conference to start its substantive work when it convenes in January 2010, while taking into due consideration the increasing global momentum in favour of nuclear disarmament as well as progress and active engagement in deliberations at the Conference;

⁸See CD/1864.

Calls for the immediate commencement of negotiations on a fissile material cut-off treaty at the 2010 session of 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 and maintain 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 preventing nuclear terrorism, and encourages every effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear and radiological material;

Also stresses the importance of further efforts for non-proliferation, including the universalization of the comprehensive safeguards agreements of the International Atomic Energy Agency to include States which have not yet adopted and implemented such an agreement, 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 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.

Commends and further encourages the constructive role played by civil society, including the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, in promoting nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament;

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

Renewed Determination Towards the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

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