A/RES/51/40 GA

UNITED UNITED A NATIONS NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/40 7 January 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 64 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the First Committee (A/51/566/Add.4)] 51/40. The role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject of the role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields, in which, inter alia, it recognized that scientific and technological developments could have both civilian and military applications and that progress in science and technology for civilian applications needed to be maintained and encouraged, 1. Invites Member States to enhance bilateral and multilateral dialogue on the role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields, with a view to: (a) Ensuring implementation of relevant commitments already undertaken under international legal instruments; (b) Exploring ways and means of further developing international legal rules on transfers of high technology with military applications; 2. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled "The role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields". 79th plenary meeting 10 December 1996 97-76021

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