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A/RES/65/51 GA

Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

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178
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4
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Draft symbol A/C.1/65/L.12
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Category POLITICAL AND LEGAL QUESTIONS
P5 Positions
Russia ✓ United States ~ United Kingdom ✓ China ✓ France ✓
UN Document A/RES/65/51 ↗

Vote Recorded Vote — A/65/PV.60 Dec. 8, 2010

— Abstain (4)
Absent (10)
✓ Yes (178)
Full text of resolution OCR extract — may contain errors
United Nations A/RES/65/51 General Assembly Distr.: General 13 January 2011 Sixty-fifth session Agenda item 97 (c) 10-51560 *1051560* Please rec cle ♲ Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2010 [on the report of the First Committee (A/65/410)] 65/51. Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, in particular resolution 63/53 of 2 December 2008, Determined to act with a view to achieving effective progress towards general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, Recalling the long-standing determination of the international community to achieve the effective prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons as well as the continuing support for measures to uphold the authority of the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925, 0F1 as expressed by consensus in many previous resolutions, Emphasizing the necessity of easing international tension and strengthening trust and confidence between States, 1. Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General; 1F2 2. Renews its previous call to all States to observe strictly the principles and objectives of the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, 0H1 and reaffirms the vital necessity of upholding its provisions; 3. Calls upon those States that continue to maintain reservations to the 1925 Geneva Protocol to withdraw them; _______________ 1 League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. XCIV (1929), No. 2138. 2 A/65/95. A/RES/65/51 2 4. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the present resolution. 60th plenary meeting 8 December 2010
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