A/RES/62/31 GA

United Nations A/RES/62/31 General Assembly Distr.: General 10 January 2008 Sixty-second session Agenda item 98 07-46563 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2007 [on the report of the First Committee (A/62/391)] 62/31. Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty) The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 60/56 of 8 December 2005, entitled “Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments”, and its resolution 61/69 of 6 December 2006, entitled “Nuclear- weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas”, Welcoming the desire of the South-East Asian States to maintain peace and stability in the region in the spirit of peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding and cooperation, Reaffirming its conviction of the important role of nuclear-weapon-free zones in strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime and in extending the areas of the world that are nuclear-weapon-free, and, with particular reference to the responsibilities of the nuclear-weapon States, calling upon all States to support the process of nuclear disarmament and to work for the total elimination of all nuclear weapons, Convinced that the establishment of a South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, as an essential component of the Declaration on the Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality, signed in Kuala Lumpur on 27 November 1971, will contribute towards strengthening the security of States within the Zone and towards enhancing international peace and security as a whole, Noting the entry into force of the Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear- Weapon-Free Zone on 27 March 19971 and the tenth anniversary of its entry into force in 2007, Welcoming the reaffirmation of South-East Asian States that the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone shall continue to play a pivotal role in the area of confidence-building measures, preventive diplomacy and the approaches to conflict _______________ 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1981, No. 33873. A/RES/62/31 2 resolution as enshrined in the Declaration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Concord II (Bali Concord II),2 Reaffirming the inalienable right of all the parties to the Treaty on the South- East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,3 Recognizing that by signing and ratifying the relevant protocols to the treaties establishing nuclear-weapon-free zones, nuclear-weapon States undertake legally binding commitments to respect the status of such zones and not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against States parties to such treaties, Recalling the applicable principles and rules of international law relating to the freedom of the high seas and the rights of innocent passage, archipelagic sea lanes passage or transit passage of ships and aircraft, particularly those of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,4 1. Welcomes the commitment of the Commission for the Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone to further enhance and strengthen the implementation of the Bangkok Treaty1 by adopting a Plan of Action for the period 2007–2012 in Manila on 29 July 2007; 2. Encourages States parties to the Treaty to work towards resuming direct consultations with the five nuclear-weapon States to resolve comprehensively, in accordance with the objectives and principles of the Treaty, existing outstanding issues on a number of provisions of the Treaty and the Protocol thereto; 3. Encourages nuclear-weapon States and States parties to the Treaty to continue to work constructively with a view to ensuring the early accession of the nuclear-weapon States to the Protocol to the Treaty; 4. Underlines the value of enhancing and implementing further ways and means of cooperation among nuclear-weapon-free zones; 5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fourth session an item entitled “Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty)”. 61st plenary meeting 5 December 2007 _______________ 2 A/58/548, annex I. 3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485. 4 Ibid., vol. 1833, No. 31363.

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