A/RES/50/70A-R. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1995

• Resolution Number: A/RES/50/70A-R
• Year: 1995
• Session: 50th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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A/RES/50/70

15 January 1996

Fiftieth session

Agenda item 70

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[on the report of the First Committee (A/50/590 and Corr.1)]

50/70. General and complete disarmament

A

Nuclear testing

The General Assembly,

Welcoming the easing of international tension and the strengthening of

trust between States that have prevailed following the end of the cold war,

Reaffirming that the cessation of all nuclear testing will contribute to

the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects, to the process of

nuclear disarmament leading to the ultimate objective of the complete

elimination of nuclear weapons and therefore to the further enhancement of

international peace and security,

Convinced that the cessation of all nuclear testing will provide a

favourable climate for the conclusion of negotiations on a comprehensive

nuclear-test-ban treaty,

Considering that nuclear testing is not consistent with undertakings by

the nuclear-weapon States at the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the

Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,

Deeply concerned about the potential negative effects of underground

nuclear testing on health and the environment,

Sharing alarm expressed internationally, regionally and nationally at

recent nuclear tests,

1. Commends those nuclear-weapon States observing nuclear testing

moratoria, and urges them to continue those moratoria pending the entry into

force of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty;

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2. Strongly deplores all current nuclear testing;

3. Strongly urges the immediate cessation of all nuclear testing.

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B

Small arms

The General Assembly,

Reaffirming the role of the United Nations in the field of disarmament

and the commitment of Member States to take concrete steps in order to

strengthen that role,

Realizing the urgent need to resolve underlying conflicts, to diminish

tensions and to accelerate efforts towards general and complete disarmament

under strict and effective international control with a view to maintaining

regional and international peace and security in a world free from the scourge

of war and the burden of armaments,

Reaffirming the inherent right to individual or collective self-defence

recognized in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, which implies

that States also have the right to acquire arms with which to defend

themselves,

Reaffirming also the right of self-determination of all peoples, in

particular peoples under colonial or other forms of alien domination or

foreign occupation, and the importance of the effective realization of this

right, as enunciated, inter alia, in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of

Action, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 1/

Realizing that arms obtained through the illicit arms trade are most

likely to be used for violent purposes and that even small arms when so

obtained, directly or indirectly, by terrorist groups, drug traffickers or

underground organizations can pose a danger to regional and international

security, and certainly to the security and political stability of the

countries affected,

Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General to the Security

Council entitled "Supplement to an Agenda for Peace", 2/ which stressed the

urgent need for practical disarmament in the context of the conflicts the

United Nations is actually dealing with and of the weapons, most of them light

weapons, that are actually killing people in the hundreds of thousands, 3/

and which identified light weapons as including, inter alia, small arms and

anti-personnel land-mines,

Recalling its resolution 49/75 G of 15 December 1994, in which it

welcomed the initiative taken by Mali concerning the question of the illicit

1/ Report of the World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 14 -

25 June 1993 (A/CONF.157/24 (Part I)), chap. III.

2/ A/50/60-S/1995/1.

3/ Ibid., para. 60.

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