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United Nations A/RES/78/15 General Assembly Distr.: General 6 December 2023 23-24431 (E) 131223 *2324431* Seventy-eighth session Agenda item 93 Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 4 December 2023 [on the report of the First Committee (A/78/403, para. 7)] 78/15. Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions on the prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, Recalling also its resolutions 51/37 of 10 December 1996, 54/44 of 1 December 1999, 57/50 of 22 November 2002, 60/46 of 8 December 2005, 63/36 of 2 December 2008, 66/21 of 2 December 2011, 69/27 of 2 December 2014, 72/23 of 4 December 2017 and 75/31 of 7 December 2020 relating to the prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, Recalling further paragraph 77 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly,1 Determined to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction that have characteristics comparable in destructive effect to those of weapons of mass destruction identified in the definition of weapons of mass destruction adopted by the United Nations in 1948, 2 __________________ 1 Resolution S-10/2. 2 The definition was adopted by the Commission for Conventional Armaments (see S/C.3/32/Rev.1 and S/C.3/32/Rev.1/Corr.1). A/RES/78/15 Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament 23-24431 2/2 Noting with appreciation the discussions which have been held in the Conference on Disarmament under the item entitled “New types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons; radiological weapons”, 3 Noting the desirability of keeping the matter under review, as appropriate, 1. Reaffirms that effective measures should be taken to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction; 2. Requests the Conference on Disarmament, without prejudice to further overview of its agenda, to keep the matter under review, as appropriate, with a view to making, when necessary, recommendations on undertaking specific negotiations on identified types of such weapons; 3. Calls upon all States, immediately following any recommendations of the Conference on Disarmament, to give favourable consideration to those recommendations; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference on Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this item by the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session; 5. Requests the Conference on Disarmament to report the results of any consideration of the matter in its annual reports to the General Assembly; 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-first session the item entitled “Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament”. 42nd plenary meeting 4 December 2023 __________________ 3 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/64/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/65/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/66/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/67/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/68/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/69/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/70/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Seventy- first Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/71/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/72/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/73/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/74/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/75/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Seventy-sixth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/76/27), chap. III, sect. E; and ibid., Seventy- eighth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/78/27), chap. III, sect. E.

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