No First Placement of Weapons in Outer Space

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97b No first placement of weapons in outer space, published in 2023.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 2014–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/20

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/20	No first placement of weapons in outer space	830	78%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/20	No first placement of weapons in outer space	964	68%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/21	No first placement of weapons in outer space	658	99%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/42	No first placement of weapons in outer space	652	99%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/23	No first placement of weapons in outer space	646	99%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Arms Limitation Arms Race Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Outer Space Space Warfare Space Weapons

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the importance and urgency of the objective of preventing an arms race in outer space and the willingness of States to contribute to reaching this common goal;

Reiterates that the Conference on Disarmament, as the single multilateral negotiating forum on this subject,⁵ has the primary role in the negotiation of a multilateral agreement, or agreements, as appropriate, on the prevention of an arms race in outer space in all its aspects;

⁵See resolution S-10/2.

Urges an early commencement of substantive work based on the updated draft treaty on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space and of the threat or use of force against outer space objects, introduced by China and the Russian Federation at the Conference on Disarmament in 2008, under the agenda item entitled “Prevention of an arms race in outer space”;

Stresses that, while such an agreement is not yet concluded, other measures may contribute to ensuring that weapons are not placed in outer space;

Encourages all States, especially spacefaring nations, to consider the possibility of upholding, as appropriate, a political commitment not to be the first to place weapons in outer space;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-ninth session, under the item entitled “Prevention of an arms race in outer space”, the sub-item entitled “No first placement of weapons in outer space”.

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