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

A/RES/71/259View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 98a Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices, published in 2017.

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?

8 operative paragraphs

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to agree on and implement at its earliest opportunity 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 establish a high-level fissile material cut-off treaty (FMCT) expert preparatory group with a membership of 25 States, chosen on the basis of equitable geographical representation, which will operate by consensus,⁴ without prejudice to national positions in future negotiations, and which will meet in Geneva for a session of two weeks each in 2017 and in 2018, to consider and make recommendations on substantial elements of a future non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, on the basis of CD/1299 and the mandate contained therein; the high-level FMCT expert preparatory group will also examine, with a view to making possible recommendations, the report of the Group of Governmental Experts, mandated pursuant to resolution 67/53, as contained in document A/70/81, as well as the views submitted by Member States as contained in documents A/68/154 and Add.1 and A/71/140/Rev.1 and Add.1;

⁴The high-level FMCT expert preparatory group will be governed by the rules and established practices applicable to groups of governmental experts.

Requests the Chair of the high-level FMCT expert preparatory group to organize, in New York, two two-day informal consultative meetings, open-ended so that all Member States can engage in interactive discussions and share their views, which the Chair shall convey to the high-level FMCT expert preparatory group for consideration; the first meeting will convene in 2017 to consider the report of the Group of Governmental Experts, as contained in document A/70/81, the second in 2018 in order for the Chair to provide a report in his own capacity on the work of the high-level FMCT expert preparatory group;

Calls upon the Secretary-General to transmit the report of the high-level FMCT expert preparatory group to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session and to the Conference on Disarmament prior to its 2019 session;

Invites the Conference on Disarmament to examine the report of the high-level FMCT expert preparatory group 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 the negotiation of a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, all activities mandated by the present resolution shall conclude and the work of the high-level FMCT expert preparatory group shall be submitted to the Secretary-General for onward transmittal to the Conference on Disarmament;

Requests the Secretary-General to render the high-level FMCT expert preparatory group and its Chair all the necessary assistance, including the provision of relevant documents;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second 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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