A/RES/61/67 GA

United Nations A/RES/61/67 General Assembly Distr.: General 3 January 2007 Sixty-first session Agenda item 90 06-49845 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2006 [on the report of the First Committee (A/61/394)] 61/67. Declaration of a fourth disarmament decade The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions on arms control, disarmament and non- proliferation, in particular those relating to its declaration of the First, Second and Third Disarmament Decades,1 Reaffirming the validity of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly,2 the first special session devoted to disarmament, Recalling the conclusion of the Secretary-General in his latest report to the General Assembly on the work of the Organization, inter alia, that if ever there was a time to break the deadlock in multilateral negotiations and bring disarmament back into the limelight of the international agenda, it is now,3 Seriously concerned at the current disarmament, non-proliferation and international security climate, Recognizing the urgent need to mobilize concerted and more intensive global efforts to reverse the current trend in the field of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, including, where appropriate, indicative targets for accelerating attainment of the objectives of general and complete disarmament under effective international control, Conscious of the role that a fourth disarmament decade could play in the mobilization of such global efforts to meet current and emerging challenges in the area of arms control, disarmament, non-proliferation and international security, _______________ 1 Resolutions 2602 E (XXIV), 35/46 and 45/62 A. 2 Resolution S-10/2. 3 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 1 and corrigendum (A/61/1 and Corr.1), para. 95. A/RES/61/67 2 Directs the Disarmament Commission, at its 2009 substantive session, to prepare elements of a draft declaration of the 2010s as the fourth disarmament decade and to submit them for consideration by the General Assembly at its sixty- fourth session. 67th plenary meeting 6 December 2006

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