A/RES/69/43. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

• Resolution Number: A/RES/69/43
• Year: 2014
• Session: 69th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/69/43

General Assembly Distr.: General

11 December 2014

Sixty-ninth session

Agenda item 96 (z)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 December 2014

[on the report of the First Committee (A/69/440)]

69/43. Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International

Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of

nuclear weapons

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions 49/75 K of 15 December 1994, 51/45 M of

10 December 1996, 52/38 O of 9 December 1997, 53/77 W of 4 December 1998,

54/54 Q of 1 December 1999, 55/33 X of 20 November 2000, 56/24 S of

29 November 2001, 57/85 of 22 November 2002, 58/46 of 8 December 2003, 59/83

of 3 December 2004, 60/76 of 8 December 2005, 61/83 of 6 December 2006, 62/39

of 5 December 2007, 63/49 of 2 December 2008, 64/55 of 2 December 2009, 65/76

of 8 December 2010, 66/46 of 2 December 2011, 67/33 of 3 December 2012 and

68/42 of 5 December 2013,

Convinced

that the continuing existence of nuclear weapons poses a threat to

humanity and all life on Earth, and recognizing that the only defence against a

nuclear catastrophe is the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the certainty that

they will never be produced again,

Reaffirming

the commitment of the international community to the realization

of the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world through the total elimination of nuclear

weapons,

Mindful

of the solemn obligations of States parties, undertaken in article VI of

the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,

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particularly to pursue

negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear

arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament,

Recalling

the principles and objectives for nuclear non-proliferation and

disarmament adopted at the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to

the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,

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the unequivocal

commitment of nuclear-weapon States to accomplish the total elimination of their

nuclear arsenals leading to nuclear disarmament, agreed at the 2000 Review

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1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.

2 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear

Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I) and Corr.2), annex, decision 2.