A/RES/59/96. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2004

• Resolution Number: A/RES/59/96
• Year: 2004
• Session: 59th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/59/96

General Assembly Distr.: General

10 December 2004

Fifty-ninth session

Agenda item 66 (h)

04-48202

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2004

[on the report of the First Committee (A/59/460)]

59/96. Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the

United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security

Questions in Central Africa

The General Assembly

,

Bearing in mind

the purposes and principles of the United Nations and its

primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security in

accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,

Recalling

its resolutions 43/78 H and 43/85 of 7 December 1988, 44/21 of

15 November 1989, 45/58 M of 4 December 1990, 46/37 B of 6 December 1991,

47/53 F of 15 December 1992, 48/76 A of 16 December 1993, 49/76 C of

15 December 1994, 50/71 B of 12 December 1995, 51/46 C of 10 December 1996,

52/39 B of 9 December 1997, 53/78 A of 4 December 1998, 54/55 A of 1 December

1999, 55/34 B of 20 November 2000, 56/25 A of 29 November 2001, 57/88 of

22 November 2002 and 58/65 of 8 December 2003,

Considering

the importance and effectiveness of confidence-building measures

taken at the initiative and with the participation of all States concerned and taking

into account the specific characteristics of each region, since such measures can

contribute to regional stability and to international peace and security,

Convinced

that the resources released by disarmament, including regional

disarmament, can be devoted to economic and social development and to the

protection of the environment for the benefit of all peoples, in particular those of the

developing countries,

Recalling

the guidelines for general and complete disarmament adopted at its

tenth special session, the first special session devoted to disarmament,

Convinced

that development can be achieved only in a climate of peace,

security and mutual confidence both within and among States,

Bearing in mind

the establishment by the Secretary-General on 28 May 1992

of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in

Central Africa, the purpose of which is to encourage arms limitation, disarmament,

non-proliferation and development in the subregion,