A/RES/73/50. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2018

• Resolution Number: A/RES/73/50
• Year: 2018
• Session: 73rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES /73/ 50

General Assembly

Distr. : Genera l

12 Dec ember 2 018

18-212 52 (E) 14121 8

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Seventy -third sess ion

Agen da item 101 (b)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 5 December 2018

[on th e report of the Firs t Committ ee (A/73 /510 and A/73/510 /Corr.1)]

73/50. Nuclea r disarmamen t

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g its res olution 4 9/75 E of 15 De cember 19 94 o n a ste p-by-step

redu ction of the nucle ar threat, and it s re solutio ns 50/70 P o f 12 Decembe r 1 995,

51/45 O o f 10 Dec ember 19 96, 52/3 8 L of 9 Decemb er 1997, 53/77 X o f 4 Dece mber

1998 , 54/54 P of 1 Dec ember 1999, 55/3 3 T o f 20 No vember 2000, 56/2 4 R of

29 Nove mber 2001 , 57 /79 of 22 No vember 20 02, 58/56 of 8 Dece mber 2003 ,

59/7 7 of 3 Dece mber 2 004, 60/70 of 8 De cember 2005, 61/7 8 of 6 De cember 2006,

62/4 2 of 5 De cember 2007, 63/46 of 2 Dece mber 2 008, 64/53 of 2 De cember 2009,

65/5 6 of 8 Decemb er 20 10, 66 /51 o f 2 Dec ember 2011, 67/60 of 3 De cember 2012,

68/4 7 of 5 De cember 2013, 69/48 of 2 Dece mber 2 014, 70/52 of 7 De cember 2015,

71/6 3 of 5 Dec ember 20 16 and 72/38 o f 4 Dece mber 20 17 on nu clear d isarmame nt,

Reaf firm ing the c ommitme nt of the i nternati onal co mmunit y to t he goa l of t he

total elimin ation of nuclea r weapo ns and the esta blishme nt of a nuclear -weapo n-free

worl d,

Bear ing in mi nd that the Convent ion o n th e Pr ohibitio n of the Deve lopment ,

Prod uction and Stockpi ling of Ba cteriolo gical (Biolog ical) and Toxi n Weapo ns and

on Their Dest ruction of 197 2

1

an d the Co nvention on the Pro hibition of the

Deve lopment , Prod uction, Stock piling and Use o f Che mical We apons and on The ir

Dest ruction of 19 93

2

ha ve al ready esta blished lega l reg imes on the com plete

proh ibition o f biologi cal and ch emical we apons, r especti vely, and det ermined to

achie ve a co mprehens ive nucl ear wea pons con vention on the p rohibiti on of th e

deve lopment , testin g, prod uction, stockpil ing, lo an, tran sfer, use and threat of use of

nucl ear weapo ns and on th eir destru ction, an d to conclu de such an i nternati onal

conve ntion a t an ear ly date,

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1

United Nations , Treaty Serie s, vol . 1015, No. 14 860.

2

Ibid., vol. 197 4, No. 33757.