A/RES/67/56 GA

United Nations A/RES/67/56* General Assembly Distr.: General 4 January 2013 Sixty-seventh session Agenda item 94 12-48196* *1248196* Please recycle Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2012 [on the report of the First Committee (A/67/409)] 67/56. Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations The General Assembly, Deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, Recalling the Declaration of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, the first special session devoted to disarmament,1 which states, inter alia, that all the peoples of the world have a vital interest in the success of disarmament negotiations, and that all States have the right to participate in disarmament negotiations, Reaffirming the role and functions of the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission, as set out in the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly,2 Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration,3 which states, inter alia, that responsibility for managing worldwide economic and social development, as well as threats to international peace and security, must be shared among the nations of the world and should be exercised multilaterally and that, as the most universal and most representative organization in the world, the United Nations must play the central role, Welcoming the efforts by Member States to secure progress in multilateral disarmament and the support of the Secretary-General for such efforts, and noting in this regard the Secretary-General’s five-point proposal on nuclear disarmament, Recalling the outcome, including the action points, of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,4 _______________ * Reissued for technical reasons on 15 July 2013. 1 Resolution S-10/2, sect. II. 2 Ibid., sect. IV. 3 Resolution 55/2. 4 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, vols. I–III (NPT/CONF.2010/50 (Vols. I–III)). A/RES/67/56 2 Reaffirming the absolute validity of multilateral diplomacy in the field of disarmament and non-proliferation, and determined to promote multilateralism as an essential way to develop arms regulation and disarmament negotiations, Recognizing the absence of concrete outcomes of multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations within the United Nations framework for more than a decade, Recognizing also the increased political attention to disarmament and non-proliferation issues and that the international political climate is more conducive to the promotion of multilateral disarmament and to moving towards the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, Emphasizing the importance and urgency of substantive progress on priority disarmament and non-proliferation issues, Recognizing the important contribution that civil society makes to multilateral disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control processes, Mindful of Article 11 of the Charter of the United Nations concerning the functions and powers of the General Assembly to consider and make recommendations, including recommendations with regard to disarmament, 1. Decides to establish an open-ended working group to develop proposals to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations for the achievement and maintenance of a world without nuclear weapons; 2. Also decides that the working group shall convene in Geneva in 2013 for up to 15 working days, within available timeframes, with the contribution of international organizations and civil society, in accordance with established practice, and shall hold its organizational session as soon as possible; 3. Further decides that the working group shall submit a report on its work, reflecting discussions held and all proposals made, to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session, which will assess its work, taking into account developments in other relevant forums; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to provide, within available resources, the support necessary to convene the working group and also to transmit the report of the working group to the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission; 5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-eighth session an item entitled “Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations”. 48th plenary meeting 3 December 2012

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