A/RES/67/70. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2012

• Year: 2012
• Resolution Number: A/RES/67/70
• Session: 67th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/67/70

General Assembly Distr.: General

11 December 2012

Sixty-seventh session

Agenda item 95 (e)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2012

[on the report of the First Committee (A/67/410)]

67/70. Regional confidence-building measures: activities of

the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on

Security Questions in Central Africa

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its previous relevant resolutions, in particular resolution 66/55 of

2 December 2011,

Recalling also

the guidelines for general and complete disarmament adopted at

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

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 Central Africa subregion,

Reaffirming

that the purpose of the Standing Advisory Committee is to conduct

reconstruction and confidence-building activities in Central Africa among its

member States, including through confidence-building and arms limitation

measures,

Recalling

the Sao Tome Declaration on a Central African Common Position on

the Arms Trade Treaty, adopted by the States members of the Standing Advisory

Committee on 16 March 2011 at their thirty-second ministerial meeting, held in

Sao Tome from 12 to 16 March 2011,

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Taking note

of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on the Arms

Trade Treaty, held in New York from 2 to 27 July 2012, and taking note also of the

Second United Nations Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation

of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in

Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, held in New York from 27 August

to 7 September 2012,

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1 See A/66/72-S/2011/225, annex.