General Assembly

Distr. GENERAL  

9 December 1992

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ENGLISH

 
                                             A/RES/47/55
                                             81st plenary meeting
                                             9 December 1992
 
 
 
                     Israeli nuclear armament
 
 
     The General Assembly,
 
     Bearing in mind its previous resolutions on Israeli nuclear armament, the
latest of which is resolution 46/39 of 6 December 1991,
 
     Recalling its resolution 44/108 of 15 December 1989, in which, inter
alia, it called for placing all nuclear facilities in the region under
International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, pending the establishment of a
nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East,
 
     Recalling also that the Security Council, in its resolution 487 (1981),
called upon Israel urgently to place all its nuclear facilities under Agency
safeguards,
 
     Taking note of relevant resolutions adopted by the General Conference of
the International Atomic Energy Agency, the latest of which is resolution
GC(XXXVI)/RES/601 of 25 September 1992,
 
     Taking into consideration the final document on international security
and disarmament adopted by the Tenth Conference of Heads of State or
Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Jakarta from 1 to 6 September
1992, and in particular its paragraph 52, which relates to Israel's nuclear
capabilities,
 
     Deeply alarmed by the information with regard to the continuing
production, development and acquisition of nuclear weapons by Israel,
 
     Concerned at the cooperation between Israel and South Africa in the
military nuclear fields,
 
     1.   Deplores Israel's refusal to renounce possession of nuclear weapons;
 
     2.   Urges Israel to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons;
 
     3.   Reaffirms that Israel should promptly apply Security Council
resolution 487 (1981), in which the Council, inter alia, requested it to place
all its nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards
and to refrain from attacking or threatening to attack nuclear facilities;
 
     4.   Calls upon all States and organizations not to cooperate with or
give assistance to Israel with the aim of enhancing its nuclear-weapons
capability;
 
     5.   Requests the International Atomic Energy Agency to inform the
Secretary-General of any steps Israel may take to place its nuclear facilities
under Agency safeguards;
 
     6.   Requests the Secretary-General to follow closely Israeli nuclear
activities and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth
session; 
 
     7.   Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-eighth
session the item entitled "Israeli nuclear armament".