A/RES/57/65 GA

United Nations A/RES/57/65 General Assembly Distr.: General 30 December 2002 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 66 (j) 02 54238 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the First Committee (A/57/510)] 57/65. Relationship between disarmament and development The General Assembly, Recalling the provisions of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly concerning the relationship between disarmament and development,1 Recalling also the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development,2 Recalling further its resolutions 49/75 J of 15 December 1994, 50/70 G of 12 December 1995, 51/45 D of 10 December 1996, 52/38 D of 9 December 1997, 53/77 K of 4 December 1998, 54/54 T of 1 December 1999, 55/33 L of 20 November 2000 and 56/24 E of 29 November 2001, Bearing in mind the Final Document of the Twelfth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Durban, South Africa, from 29 August to 3 September 1998,3 and the Final Document of the Thirteenth Ministerial Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Cartagena, Colombia, on 8 and 9 April 2000,4 Welcoming the different activities organized by the high-level Steering Group on Disarmament and Development and the views and proposals received from Governments on the issue, as contained in the report of the Secretary-General,5 Stressing the importance of the symbiotic relationship between disarmament and development in current international relations, and concerned at increasing global military expenditure, which could otherwise be spent on development needs, Taking into account developments in the context of disarmament and international security since the end of the cold war, as well as new perspectives and _______________ 1 See resolution S-10/2. 2 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8. 3 A/53/667-S/1998/1071, annex I. 4 A/54/917-S/2000/580, annex. 5 See A/57/167 and Add.1. A/RES/57/65 2 goals on development issues emerging from, inter alia, the United Nations Millennium Declaration,6 the Doha Ministerial Declaration of the World Trade Organization, adopted on 14 November 2001,7 the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, adopted on 22 March 2002,8 and the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development9 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”),10 adopted on 4 September 2002, Mindful of the changes in international relations that have taken place since the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development, including the development agenda that has emerged over the past decade, Bearing in mind the new challenges for the international community in the field of development, poverty eradication and the elimination of the diseases that afflict humanity, 1. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to resolution 56/24 E,5 including its proposal to consider the establishment of a group of governmental experts to undertake a review of the relationship between disarmament and development in the current international context, as well as the role of the Organization in this connection; 2. Requests the Secretary-General, within available financial resources and with the assistance of a group of governmental experts to be established in 2003 on the basis of equitable geographical distribution, while seeking the views of States, to present for the consideration of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session a report with recommendations for a reappraisal of the relationship between disarmament and development in the current international context, as well as the future role of the Organization in this connection; 3. Calls upon the high-level Steering Group on Disarmament and Development to strengthen and enhance its programme of activities, in accordance with the mandate contained in subparagraph (ix) b of paragraph 35 (c) of the action programme adopted at the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development;2 4. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take action, through appropriate organs and within available resources, for the implementation of the action programme; 5. Urges the international community to devote part of the resources made available by the implementation of disarmament and arms limitation agreements to economic and social development, with a view to reducing the ever widening gap between developed and developing countries; _______________ 6 See resolution 55/2. 7 WT/MIN(01)/DEC/1. 8 Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 9 Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution l, annex. 10 Ibid., resolution 2, annex. A/RES/57/65 3 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Relationship between disarmament and development”. 57th plenary meeting 22 November 2002

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