A/RES/58/56. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2003

• Resolution Number: A/RES/58/56
• Session: 58th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/58/56

General Assembly Distr.: General

17 December 2003

Fifty-eighth session

Agenda item 73 (t)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2003

[on the report of the First Committee (A/58/462)]

58/56. Nuclear disarmament

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolution 49/75 E of 15 December 1994 on a step-by-step

reduction of the nuclear threat, and its resolutions 50/70 P of 12 December 1995,

51/45 O of 10 December 1996, 52/38 L of 9 December 1997, 53/77 X of

4 December 1998, 54/54 P of 1 December 1999, 55/33 T of 20 November 2000,

56/24 R of 29 November 2001 and 57/79 of 22 November 2002 on nuclear

disarmament,

Reaffirming

the commitment of the international community to the goal of the

total elimination of nuclear weapons and the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free

world,

Bearing in mind

that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,

Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and

on Their Destruction of 1972

1

and the Convention on the Prohibition of the

Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their

Destruction of 1993

2

have already established legal regimes on the complete

prohibition of biological and chemical weapons, respectively, and determined to

achieve a nuclear weapons convention on the prohibition of the development,

testing, production, stockpiling, loan, transfer, use and threat of use of nuclear

weapons and on their destruction, and to conclude such an international convention

at an early date,

Recognizing

that there now exist conditions for the establishment of a world

free of nuclear weapons, and stressing the need to take concrete practical steps

towards achieving this goal,

Bearing in mind

paragraph 50 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special

Session of the General Assembly,

3

the first special session devoted to disarmament,

calling for the urgent negotiation of agreements for the cessation of the qualitative

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1 Resolution 2826 (XXVI), annex.

2 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/47/27),

appendix I.

3 Resolution S-10/2.