Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 94y Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices, published in 2013.

What other versions does this mandate have?

10 versions · 2010–2023

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/78/28

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2023	A/RES/78/28	Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices	912	72%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/68	Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices	772	60%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/51	Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices	775	57%Compare
2018	A/RES/73/65	Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices	1,157	46%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/259	Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices	1,206	37%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Fissionable Materials Groups of Experts Military Explosives Nuclear Weapons

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to agree on and implement early in 2013 a balanced and comprehensive programme of work that includes the immediate commencement of negotiations on a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices on the basis of document CD/1299 and the mandate contained therein;

Requests the Secretary-General to seek the views of Member States on a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, including possible aspects thereof, and to submit a report on the subject to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session;

Also requests the Secretary-General to establish a group of governmental experts with a membership of 25 States chosen on the basis of equitable geographical representation, which, taking into account the report containing the views of Member States, will make recommendations on possible aspects that could contribute to but not negotiate a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices on the basis of document CD/1299 and the mandate contained therein, which will operate on the basis of consensus, without prejudice to national positions in future negotiations and which will meet in Geneva for two sessions of two weeks in 2014 and in 2015;

Calls upon the Secretary-General to transmit the report of the group of governmental experts to the General Assembly at its seventieth session and to the Conference on Disarmament;

Invites the Conference on Disarmament to take note of the report of the group of governmental experts and consider further action as appropriate;

Decides that, should the Conference on Disarmament agree upon and implement a balanced and comprehensive programme of work that includes negotiation of a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, the group of governmental experts shall conclude and its work shall be submitted to the Secretary-General for onward transmission to the Conference on Disarmament;

Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-eighth session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices”.

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