Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 57
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/70 of 16 December 1993, in which
the entire international community, for the first time, supported
the commencement of multilateral negotiations on a comprehensive
nuclear-test-ban treaty,
Reaffirming that a comprehensive nuclear-test ban is one
of the highest priority objectives of the international community
in the field of disarmament and non-proliferation,
Convinced that the most effective way to achieve an end
to nuclear testing is through the conclusion of a universal and
internationally and effectively verifiable comprehensive nuclear-test-ban
treaty that will attract the adherence of all States and will
contribute to the prevention of the proliferation of nuclear weapons
in all its aspects, to the process of nuclear disarmament and
therefore to the enhancement of international peace and security,
Reaffirming the conviction that the exercise of utmost
restraint in respect of nuclear testing would be consistent with
the negotiation of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty,
Noting the aspirations expressed by the parties to the
1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in
Outer Space and under Water 1/ to seek to achieve the discontinuance
of all test explosions of nuclear weapons for all time, which
are recalled in the preamble to the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation
of Nuclear Weapons, 2/
Welcoming the preparation of a rolling text in the Ad Hoc
Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban of the Conference on Disarmament,
as reflected in the report of the Conference and its appendix,
3/ and noting the decision of the Conference to continue its work
in inter-sessional meetings,
1. Welcomes the multilateral negotiation on a comprehensive
nuclear- test-ban treaty in the Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear
Test Ban of the Conference on Disarmament, and the positive and
substantial contributions to the elaboration of the rolling text
made by States participating in those negotiations;
2. Calls upon participants in the Conference on Disarmament
to advance work on the basis of the rolling text during the inter-sessional
negotiating period with a view to making substantial progress;
3. Also calls upon the Conference on Disarmament, upon
the re-establishment of the Ad Hoc Committee at the commencement
of its 1995 session and renewal of its mandate, to proceed to
a new phase of negotiation;
4. Urges all States participating in the Conference on
Disarmament, in particular the nuclear-weapon States, to negotiate
intensively, as a high priority task, and to conclude a universal
and multilaterally and effectively verifiable comprehensive nuclear-test-ban
treaty which contributes to nuclear disarmament and the prevention
of the proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects;
5. Calls once more upon all States to support the multilateral
negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament for a comprehensive
nuclear- test-ban treaty and their conclusion without delay;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the provision
to the Conference on Disarmament of adequate administrative, substantive
and conference support services for these negotiations;
7. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its
fiftieth session the item entitled "Comprehensive test-ban
treaty".
90th plenary meeting
15 December 1994
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1/ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 480, No. 6964.
2/ Ibid, vol. 729, No. 10485.
3/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-ninth Session.