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A/RES/80/56 GA

Modalities of the 2026 meeting on victim assistance and environmental remediation : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

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170

Yes

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Draft symbol	A/C.1/80/L.57
Adopted symbol	A/RES/80/56
Category	POLITICAL AND LEGAL QUESTIONS
P5 Positions	Russia ✗ United States ~ United Kingdom ✗ China ~ France ✗
UN Document	A/RES/80/56 ↗

Vote Recorded Vote — A/80/PV.52 Dec. 1, 2025

⚠ 1 surprising vote — country whose ideal point predicts the opposite position.

— Abstain (5)

✗ No (4)

Absent (14)

✓ Yes (170)

Full text of resolution OCR extract — may contain errors

United Nations 
A/RES/80/56
 
General Assembly 
Distr.: General 
5 December 2025 
25-20006 (E) 
*2520006* 
 
 
Eightieth session 
Agenda item 99 (jj) 
General and complete disarmament: addressing the legacy 
of nuclear weapons: providing victim assistance and 
environmental remediation to Member States affected by 
the use or testing of nuclear weapons 
 
 
 
 
 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly 
on 1 December 2025 
 
 
[on the report of the First Committee (A/80/534, para. 7)] 
 
 
 
80/56. Modalities of the 2026 meeting on victim assistance and 
environmental remediation 
 
 
 
The General Assembly, 
 
Recalling its resolutions 78/240 of 22 December 2023 and 79/60 of 2 December 2024, 
 
Welcoming the decision contained therein for the Secretary-General to convene a 
one-day meeting on victim assistance and environmental remediation that encouraged 
participants to produce a series of recommendations based on the discussions, 
 
1. 
Decides that the formal meeting will be held in early 2026 at United Nations 
Headquarters, with conference services and with the participation of Member States, 
observer States and observers of the United Nations General Assembly, where they will 
share their relevant experience; 
 
2. 
Also decides that the Secretary-General shall invite civil society representatives, 
including from organizations accredited to the Economic and Social Council, as well as 
relevant United Nations agencies, scientists, representatives of communities affected by the 
use, production and testing of nuclear weapons, and academia; 
 
3. 
Encourages participation at the highest possible level; 
 
4. 
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-first session, under 
the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Addressing 
the legacy of nuclear weapons: providing victim assistance and environmental 
remediation to Member States affected by the use or testing of nuclear weapons”. 
 
52nd plenary meeting 
1 December 2025

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