A/RES/70/50. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2015

• Resolution Number: A/RES/70/50
• Year: 2015
• Session: 70th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/70/50

General Assembly Distr.: General

11 December 2015

Seventieth session

Agenda item 97

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2015

[on the report of the First Committee (A/70/460)]

70/50. Ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations, which was

established to save succeeding generations from the untold suffering of the scourge

of war,

Recalling also

that the United Nations emerged at the time of the immense

trail of death and destruction resulting from the Second World War, 70 years ago,

Recalling further

the noble principles of the Charter of the United Nations,

which enjoin the international community, individually and collectively, to spare no

effort in promoting the ethical imperative of “in larger freedom”, so that all peoples

may enjoy freedom from want, freedom from fear and the freedom to live in dignity,

Convinced

that, given the catastrophic humanitarian consequences and risks

associated with a nuclear weapon detonation, Member States have long envisaged

nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation as urgent and interlinked ethical

imperatives in achieving the objectives of the Charter, which is reflected in the first

resolution, resolution 1 (I), adopted by the General Assembly on 24 January 1946,

aimed at the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all

other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction,

Acknowledging

, in this connection, the ethical imperatives outlined in the

provisions of its resolutions and reports and those of other related international

initiatives on the catastrophic humanitarian consequences and risks posed by a

nuclear weapon detonation, including the declaration that the use of nuclear

weapons would cause indiscriminate suffering and as such is a violation of the

Charter and the laws of humanity and international law,

1

the condemnation of

nuclear war as contrary to human conscience and a violation of the fundamental

right to life,

2

the threat to the very survival of humankind posed by the existence of

nuclear weapons,

3

the detrimental environmental effects of the use of nuclear

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1 See resolution 1653 (XVI).

2 See resolution 38/75.

3 See resolution S-10/2.