The General Assembly,
 
      Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject of the role of science
and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other
related fields, in which, inter alia, it recognized that scientific and
technological developments could have both civilian and military applications
and that progress in science and technology for civilian applications needed
to be maintained and encouraged,
 
      1.    Invites Member States to enhance bilateral and multilateral
dialogue on the role of science and technology in the context of international
security, disarmament and other related fields, with a view to:
 
      (a)   Ensuring implementation of relevant commitments already undertaken
under international legal instruments;
 
      (b)   Exploring ways and means of further developing international legal
rules on transfers of high technology with military applications;
 
      2.    Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third
session the item entitled "The role of science and technology in the context
of international security, disarmament and other related fields".