Impact of UN General Assembly Resolutions on the Circulation and Use of Weapons on Earth and in the Cosmos

• Author: Serhiy Didenko
• Position: Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Director of the Kherson Institute of 'Interregional Academy of Personnel Management' (Kherson, Ukraine)
• Pages: 33-41

Advanced Space Law, Volume 1, 2018 33

Impact of UN General Assembly Resolutions

on the Circulation and Use of Weapons

on Earth and in the Cosmos

Serhiy Didenko1

Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine,

Director of the Kherson Institute of

“Interregional Academy of Personnel Management”

(Kherson, Ukraine)

E-mail: sergii_didenko@ukr.net

In the paper, the author has analyzed the international experience of administrative and legal support

for the circulation and use of weapons on Earth and in the Cosmos. The analysis carried out by the author

testies to the global nature of this issue, which has found its international legal settlement at the level of

the UN and the EU. It is in accordance with the resolutions of these organizations that in the majority of

countries of the world legally legalized the circulation and use of weapons on Earth and in the Cosmos.

It has been found that, in accordance with Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice,

which contains “the sources of international law,” not all resolutions of the General Assembly have a

quasi-legislative force. Therefore, if the resolutions of the Assembly that ensure the circulation and use

of weapons on Earth have quasi-legislative competence, they therefore make a signicant contribution to

the world legal order, then the resolutions of the Assembly in the Cosmic activities have a limited legal

status. In fact, administrative and legal support for the circulation and use of weapons in the Cosmos is

unregulated.

Keywords: weapons; circulation of weapons, administrative and legal support, General Assembly

resolution, quasi-legislative force

Вплив резолюцій Генеральної Асамблеї ООН

на забезпечення обігу та застосування зброї

на Землі і в космосі

Діденко, Сергій Володимирович

Доктор юридичних наук, професор, Заслужений юрист України,

директор Херсонського інституту

«Міжрегіональної Академії управління персоналом»

(Херсон, Україна)

© Didenko, Serhiy, 2018