A/RES/55/34H. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2000

• Resolution Number: A/RES/55/34H
• Year: 2000
• Session: 55th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/55/34

General Assembly Distr.: General

4 January 2001

Fifty-fifth session

Agenda item 74

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Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly

[on the report of the First Committee (A/55/560)]

55/34. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of

the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly

A

UNITED NATIONS DISARMAMENT INFORMATION PROGRAMME

The General Assembly,

Recalling its decision taken in 1982 at its twelfth special session, the second

special session devoted to disarmament, by which the World Disarmament

Campaign was launched,

1

Bearing in mind its resolution 47/53 D of 9 December 1992, in which it

decided, inter alia, that the World Disarmament Campaign should be known

thereafter as the “United Nations Disarmament Information Programme” and the

World Disarmament Campaign Voluntary Trust Fund as the “Voluntary Trust Fund

for the United Nations Disarmament Information Programme”,

Recalling its resolutions 49/76 A of 15 December 1994, 51/46 A of

10 December 1996 and 53/78 E of 4 December 1998,

Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations

Disarmament Information Programme,

2

1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the

United Nations Disarmament Information Programme;

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2. Commends the Secretary-General for his efforts to make effective use of

the limited resources available to him in disseminating as widely as possible,

including by electronic means, information on arms limitation and disarmament to

Governments, the media, non-governmental organizations, educational communities

and research institutes, and in carrying out a seminar and conference programme;

1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Twelfth Special Session, Plenary Meetings, 1st meeting,

paras. 110 and 111.

2 A/55/128 and Add.1.