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40 General Assembly-Thirty-third Session, Taking into account the comments made on this item and relevant documents submitted to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session, Noting also that sustained and intensive efforts in the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament have led to increased understanding in identifying practical approaches towards the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of all chemi- cal weapons and towards their destruction, Believing that future agreement on the prohibition of chemical weapons should meet the objective of complete, effective and verifiable prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of chemical weapons, as well as provide adequate methods of verification for the destruction of the stockpiles of chemical weapons, and recognizing that arrangements for verification should be based on a combination of national and international arrangements, Having in mind that agreement on the complete prohibition of the development, production and stock- piling of all chemical weapons and on their destruction should not impede the utilization of science and tech- nology for the econornic development of States, Desiring to contribute to an early and successful conclusion of the negotiations on effective and strict measures for the complete prohibition of the develop- ment, production and stockpiling of all chemical weapons and for their destruction, 1. Urges all States to reach early agreement on the effective prohibition of the development, produc- tion and stockpiling of all chemical weapons and on their destruction; 2. Urges the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America to submit their joint initiative to the Comrnittee on Disarmament in arder to assist it in achieving early agreement on the prohibi- tion of the development, production and stockpiling of all chemical weapons and on their destruction; 3. Requests the Committee on Disarmament, as a matter of high priority, to undertake, at the beginning of its 1979 session, negotiations with a view to elabo- rating an agreement on effective measures for the prohibition of the development, production and stock- piling of all chemical weapons and for their destruc- tion, taking into account all existing proposals and future initiatives; 4. Invites all States that have not yet done so to accede to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacte- riological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, as well as to accede to ar ratify the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous ar Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925, and calls again for strict observance by all States of the principies and objectives of those instruments; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Committee on Disarmament all documents of the thirty-third session of the General Assembly relating to chemical weapons and to chemical means of warfare; 6. Requests the Committee on Disarmament to report on the results of its negotiations to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session. 84th plenary meeting 14 December 1978 B The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 2826 (XXVI) of 16 De- cember 1972, in which it commended the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction10 and expressed the hope for the widest possible adherence to that Convention, Noting that article XII of the Convention provides as follows: "Five years after the entry into force of this Convention, or earlier if it is requested by a majority of Parties to the Convention by submitting a pro- posal to this effect to the Depositary Govemments, a Conference of States Parties to the Convention shall be held at Geneva, Switzerland, to review the operation of the Convention, with a view to assuring that the purposes of the preamble and the provisions of the Convention, including the provisions con- ceming negotiations on chemical weapons, are being realized. Such review shall take into account any new scientific and technological developments rele- vant to the Convention", Believing that the availability of information as appropriate on any new scientific and technological developments relevant to the Convention could con- tribute to the work of the Review Conference of the Parties to the Convention, Bearing in mind that the Convention will have been in force for five years on 26 March 1980 and expect- ing that the Review Conference called for in the Convention will take place near that date, l. Notes that, after appropriate consultations, a preparatory committee of parties to the Convention is to be arranged; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to render the necessary assistance and to provide such services, in- cluding summary records, as may be required for the Review Conference and its preparation. 84th plenary meeting J 4 December J 978 33/60. Implementation of General Assembly resolution 32/78 The General Assembly, Reaffirming its conviction that the cessation of nuclear-weapon testing by all States in all environments would be in the interest of all mankind, both as a majar step towards ending the qualitative im- provement, development and proliferation of nuclear weapons and as a means of relieving the deep ap- prehension concerning the harmful consequences of radioactive contamination for the health of present and future generations, Recalling the determination of the parties to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the At- mosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water11 and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons12 10 Resolution 2826 (XXVI), annex. 1 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 480, No. 6964, p. 43. 12 Resolution 2373 (XXII), annex. III. Resolutions adopted on the reporta of the First Committee 41 expressed in those Treaties to continue neg~tiations to achieve the discontinuance of all test explos1ons for all time, Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, in particular resolution 32/78 of 12 December 1977 and paragraph 51 of resolution S-10/2 of 30 June 1978, Recognizing the importance to a treaty prohibiting nuclear testing of the study being carried ~ut by the Ad Hoc Group of Scientific Experts to Cons1der Int~r- national Co-operative Measures to Detect ~nd ldentlfy Seismic Events on a global network of statlons for the exchange of seismological data, Taking note of that part of the report of the C?n- ference of the Committee on Disarmament13 relatmg to the question of a comprehensive test-han treaty, 1. Reiterates its grave concern over the fact ~hat nuclear-weapon testing has continued unabated agamst the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Member States; 2. Reaffirms its conviction that a treaty on the subject of the present resolution is a matter of the highest priority; 3. Regrets that a draft treaty has not been con- cluded during the past year; 4. Notes that the three negotiating nuclear-weapon States acknowledge the need to bring their negotiations to a speedy and successful conclusion; 5. Urges those three States to expedite their n~~o- tiations with a view to bringing them to a pos1t1ve conclusion as a matter of urgency and to use their utmost endeavours to transmit the results to the Com- mittee on Disarmament before the beginning of its 1979 session for full consideration; 6. Requests the Committee on Disarmament to take up immediately the agreed text resulting fr<;>m the negotiations referred to in paragraph 5 above with a view to the submission as soon as possible of a draft treaty, which will attract the widest possible adherence, to a resumed thirty-third session of the General Assembly; 7. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fourth session an item relating to the im- plementation of the present resolution. 84th plenary meeting 14 December 1978 33/61. Implementation of General Assemhly resolution 32/79 concerning the signa- ture and ratification of Additional Pro- tocol II of the Treaty for the Prohihition of Nuclear W eapons in Latín America (Treaty of Tlatelolco) The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 1911 (XVIII) of 27 No- vember 1963, 2286 (XXII) of 5 December 1967, 2456 B (XXIII) of 20 December 1968, 2666 (XXV) of 7 December 1970, 2830 (XXVI) of 16 December 1971, 2935 (XXVII) of 29 November 1972, 3079 (XXVIII) of 6 December 1973, 3258 (XXIX) of 13 Official Records of the General Assemh!y, Thirty-thírd Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/33/27), vol. I, paras. 54-115. 9 December 1974, 3467 (XXX) of 11 December 1975 31/67 of 10 December 1976 and 32/79 of 12 December 1977, ten of which contain appeals to the nuclear-weapon States regarding the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco), 14 Reiterating its firm conviction that, for the maximum effectiveness of any treaty establishing a nuclear- weapon-free zone, the co-operation of the nucle_ar- weapon States is necessary and that such co-operatlon should take the form of commitments likewise under- taken in a formal international instrument which is legally binding, such as a treaty, convention or protocol, Recalling with satisfaction that the United King~om of Great Britain and Northern lreland, the Umted States of America, France and the People's Republic of China are already parties to Additional Protocol 11 of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco), I. Notes with satisfaction that Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latín America (Treaty of Tlatelolco) was signed in 1978 by the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lics and that the Government of that country has officially announced that it intends to ratify the Pro- tocol in the very near future; 2. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fourth session an item entitled "Implementa- tion of General Assembly resolution 33/61 concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco) ". 84th plenary meeting 14 December 1978 33/62. Effective measures to implement the pur- poses aml objectives of the Disarmament Decade The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 2602 E (XXIV) of 16 De- cember 1969, in which it declared the decade of the 1970s the Disarmament Decade, Reaffirming the purposes and objectives of the Decade, Recalling its assessment in the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly that the objectives established for the Decade appeared to be as far away as they had been or even further because the arms race was not diminishing but in- creasing and outstripping efforts to curb it,u Deeply concerned at the continued wastage of re- sources on armaments and the consequent detrimental effcct on international security and the achievement of the ncw international economic order, Recalling the decision taken at its tenth special ses- sion concerning a comprehensive programme of disar- mament, 1G Recalling also its decision that the Secretary-Gen- eral should, with the assistance of a group of qualified H United Nations, Treaty Scrie.s, vol. 634, No. 9068, p. 326. J.i Resolution S-10/2, para. 4. i,; See resolution S-10 12, sect. III.

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