United Nations Regional Centres for Peace and Disarmament

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99h United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

28 versions · 1999–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/64

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/64	United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament	796	99%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/70	United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament	789	98%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/60	United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament	784	98%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/88	United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament	775	99%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/61	United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament	769	99%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Regional Disarmament Regional Security

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Reiterates the importance of United Nations activities at the regional level to advance disarmament and to increase the stability and security of its Member States, which could be promoted in a substantive manner by the maintenance and further strengthening of the three regional centres for peace and disarmament;

Commends the three regional centres for peace and disarmament for their sustained support to Member States over the past 30 years in implementing disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation activities through seminars and conferences, capacity-building and training, policy and technical expertise, and information and advocacy at the global, regional and national levels;

Reaffirms that, in order to achieve positive results, it is useful for the three regional centres to carry out dissemination and educational programmes that promote regional peace and security and that are aimed at changing basic attitudes with respect to peace and security and disarmament so as to support the achievement of the purposes and principles of the United Nations;

Appeals to Member States in each region that are able to do so, as well as to international governmental and non-governmental organizations and foundations, to make voluntary contributions to the regional centres in their respective regions in order to strengthen their activities and initiatives;

Emphasizes the importance of the activities of the Regional Disarmament Branch of the Office for Disarmament Affairs of the Secretariat;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide all support necessary, within existing resources, to the regional centres in carrying out their programmes of activities;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second session, under the item entitled “Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly”, the sub-item entitled “United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament”.

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