Regulation, Limitation and Balanced Reduction of All Armed Forces and All Armaments: Report of the Disarmament Commission

A/RES/715(VIII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1954.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1953–1954

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1954	A/RES/715(VIII)	Regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments: report of the Disarmament Commission	614	14%Compare
1953	A/RES/704(VII)	Regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments: report of the Disarmament Commission	283	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Aggression Armed Forces Arms Limitation Biological Weapons Chemical Weapons Conventional Disarmament Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions Nuclear Weapons Subsidiary Bodies Weapons of Mass Destruction

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Realizing that competition in the development of reduction of all armed forces and all armaarmaments and armed forces beyond what is necessary ments: report of the Disarmament Commisfor the individual or collective security of Member sion States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations is not only economically unsound but is in The General, Assembly,

itself a grave danger to peace,

Reaffirming the responsibility of the United Nations

Conscious of the continuing desire of all nations, by for considering the problem of disarmament and affirming the need of providing for:

lightening the burden of armaments, to release more of the world's human and economic resources for

(a) The regulation, limitation and balanced reducpeace, tion of all armed forces and all armaments,

Having received the third report 2 of the Disarma-

( b) The elimination and prohibition of atomic, hyment Commission of 20 August 1953, submitted in drogen and other types of weapons of mass destrucaccordance with General Assembly resolution 704 tion,

(VII) of 8 April 1953,

( c) The effective international control of atomic

Endorsing the Commission's hope that recent interenergy to ensure the prohibition of atomic weapons national events will create a more propitious atmosphere and the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes for reconsideration of the disarmament question, the only,

capital importance of which, in conjunction with other questions affecting the maintenance of peace, is rec- 1 The USSR draft resolution reads as follows :

"The General Assembly ognized by all,

"Calls upon all States which have not acceded to or ratified the Geneva Protocol of 17 June 1925 for the prohibition of 2 See Official Records of the Disarmament Commission, 1953,

the use of bacterial weapons to accede to the Protocol or Supplement for July, August and September 1953, document ratify it."

DC/32.

Recognizes the general wish and affirms its earnest desire to reach agreement as early as possible on a comprehensive and co-ordinated plan, under international control, for the regulation, limitation and reduction of all armed forces and all armaments, for the elimination and prohibition of atomic, hydrogen, bacterial, chemical and all such other weapons of war and mass destruction, and for the attainment of these ends through effective measures ;

Recognizes that, whatever the weapons used, aggression is contrary to the conscience and honour uf the peoples and incompatible with membership in the United Nations and is the gravest of all crimes against peace and security throughout the world;

Takes note of the third report of the Disarmament Commission ;

Requests the Commission to continue its efforts to reach agreement on the problems with which it is

concerned, taking into consideration proposals made at the eighth session of the General Assembly, and to report again to the General Assembly and to the Security Council not later than 1 September 1954;

Calls on all Member States, and particularly the major Powers, to intensify their efforts to assist the Disarmament Commission in its tasks and to submit to the Commission any proposals which they have to make in the field of disarmament ;

Suggests that the Disarmament Commission study the desirability of establishing a sub-committee consisting of representatives of the Powers principally involved, which should seek in private an acceptable solution and report to the Disarmament Commission as soon as possible, in order that the Commission may study and report on such a solution to the General Assembly and to the Security Council not later than 1 September 1954;

Further suggests to the Disarmament Commission, in order to facilitate the progress of its work, to arrange for the sub-committee, when established, to hold its private meetings as appropriate ir, the different countries most concerned with the problem.

28 November 1953.

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