Prohibition of the Dumping of Radioactive Wastes

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99e Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes, published in 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

17 versions · 1997–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/26

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/26	Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes	861	100%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/49	Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes	860	100%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/35	Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes	861	100%Compare
2019	A/RES/74/58	Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes	861	98%Compare
2017	A/RES/72/52	Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes	861	99%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Radioactive Wastes Transboundary Waste Disposal Waste Disposal

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the part of the report of the Conference on Disarmament relating to radiological weapons;⁷

⁷Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/72/27), sect. III.E.

Also takes note of the Declaration of the International Atomic Energy Agency Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety, the Action Plan on Nuclear Safety and the high-level meeting on nuclear safety and security convened by the Secretary-General;

Expresses grave concern regarding any use of nuclear wastes that would constitute radiological warfare and have grave implications for the national security of all States;

Calls upon all States to take appropriate measures with a view to preventing any dumping of nuclear or radioactive wastes that would infringe upon the sovereignty of States;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to take into account, in any negotiations for a convention on the prohibition of radiological weapons, radioactive wastes as part of the scope of such a convention;

Also requests the Conference on Disarmament to continue to consider such a convention and to include in its report to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session the progress recorded in the negotiations on this subject;

Takes note of resolution CM/Res.1356 (LIV) of 1991, adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity,⁸ on the Bamako Convention on the Ban on the Import of Hazardous Wastes into Africa and on the Control of Their Transboundary Movements within Africa;

⁸See A/46/390, annex I.

Expresses the hope that the effective implementation of the International Atomic Energy Agency Code of Practice on the International Transboundary Movement of Radioactive Waste will enhance the protection of all States from the dumping of radioactive wastes on their territories;

Appeals to all Member States that have not yet taken the steps necessary to become party to the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management5 to do so as soon as possible;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fourth session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes”.

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