A/RES/70/52. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2015

• Resolution Number: A/RES/70/52
• Year: 2015
• Session: 70th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/70/52

General Assembly Distr.: General

11 December 2015

Seventieth session

Agenda item 97 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2015

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

70/52. 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,

57/79 of 22 November 2002, 58/56 of 8 December 2003, 59/77 of 3 December 2004,

60/70 of 8 December 2005, 61/78 of 6 December 2006, 62/42 of 5 December 2007,

63/46 of 2 December 2008, 64/53 of 2 December 2009, 65/56 of 8 December 2010,

66/51 of 2 December 2011, 67/60 of 3 December 2012, 68/47 of 5 December 2013 and

69/48 of 2 December 2014 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 comprehensive 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

the urgent need to take concrete practical steps towards achieving

the establishment of a world free of nuclear weapons,

Bearing in mind

paragraph 50 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special

Session of the General Assembly, the first special session devoted to disarmament,

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1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1015, No. 14860.

2 Ibid., vol. 1974, No. 33757.

3 Resolution S-10/2.