Report of the Conference on Disarmament

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 101a Report of the Conference on Disarmament, published in 2017.

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29 versions · 1985–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/65

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/65	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	986	80%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/71	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	927	80%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/61	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	811	77%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/89	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	810	87%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/62	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	713	97%Compare

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2 subjects

Consultations Disarmament Negotiations

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10 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the role of the Conference on Disarmament as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community;

Appreciates the strong support expressed for the Conference on Disarmament at its 2017 session by Ministers for Foreign Affairs and other high-level officials, while also acknowledging their concern about its ongoing impasse, and takes into account their calls for greater flexibility with respect to commencing the substantive work of the Conference without further delay;

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to further intensify consultations and to explore possibilities for overcoming its ongoing deadlock of two decades by adopting and implementing a balanced and comprehensive programme of work at the earliest possible date during its 2018 session, bearing in mind the decision on the programme of work adopted by the Conference on 29 May 2009,³ as well as other relevant present, past and future proposals;

³Ibid., Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/64/27), para. 18.

Takes note with appreciation of the decision of the Conference on Disarmament to establish the working group on the way ahead with a mandate to take stock of the progress on all agenda items of the Conference, identify issues for substantive work under the agenda, identify common ground for a programme of work with a negotiating mandate and consider steps for the way ahead,2 and appreciates the efforts of the Chair and the facilitators of the working group;

Welcomes the decision of the Conference on Disarmament to request the current President and the incoming President of the Conference to conduct consultations during the intersessional period and, if possible, to make recommendations, taking into account all relevant proposals, past, present and future, including those submitted as documents of the Conference, views presented and discussions held, and to endeavour to keep the membership of the Conference informed, as appropriate, of their consultations;

Requests all States members of the Conference on Disarmament to cooperate with the current President and successive Presidents in their efforts to guide the Conference to the early commencement of its substantive work, including negotiations, at its 2018 session;

Recognizes the importance of continuing consultations in 2018 on the question of the expansion of the membership of the Conference on Disarmament;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure and to strengthen, if needed, the provision to the Conference on Disarmament of all necessary administrative, substantive and conference support services;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session a report on its work;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session, under the item entitled “Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session”, the sub-item entitled “Report of the Conference on Disarmament”.

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