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Fifty-third session
First Committee
 
 
 

Documents before the First Committee at the fifty-third session of the General Assembly are listed herewith for purposes of information and ready reference. This list includes documents already issued or to be issued by 12 October 1998, and will be updated as appropriate.

Agenda item 63. Role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields

Agenda item 64. Maintenance of international security - prevention of the violent disintegration of States

A/53/176 - Note verbale dated 10 July 1998 from the Permanent Mission of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

A/53/204 - Letter dated 22 July 1998 from the Permanent Representatives of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Agenda item 65. Reduction of military budgets

(a) Reduction of military budgets

(b) Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures

Agenda item 66. Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament

A/53/202 - Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament: report of the Secretary-General

Agenda item 67. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East

A/53/379 - Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East: report of the Secretary-General

Agenda item 68. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia

A/53/209 - Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia: note by the Secretary-General

Agenda item 69. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

A/53/27 - Report of the Conference on Disarmament

Agenda item 70. Prevention of an arms race in outer space

A/53/27 - Report of the Conference on Disarmament

Agenda item 71. General and complete disarmament

A/53/27 - Report of the Conference on Disarmament

A/53/78 - Letter dated 5 March 1998 from the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

A/53/132-S/1998/448 - Letter dated 29 May 1998 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

A/53/138 - Letter dated 9 June 1998 from the Permanent Representatives of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Slovenia, South Africa and Sweden to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

A/53/273 - Letter dated 18 August 1998 from the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

A/53/297 - Letter dated 26 August 1998 from the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

(a) Notification of nuclear tests

(b) Further measures in the field of disarmament for the prevention of an arms race on the seabed and the ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof: report of the Secretary-General

(c) Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol

(d) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction

(e) Transparency in armaments

(f) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them

g) Relationship between disarmament and development

(h) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control

A/53/158/Add.1 - Information from the Government of the Republic of Cuba on measures taken in fulfilment of the objectives of resolution 52/38 E

A/53/158/Add.2 - Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control: report of the Secretary-General

(i) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament

(j) Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures

(k) Contribution towards banning anti-personnel landmines
(l) Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes
(m) Small arms

(n) Nuclear disarmament

(o) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas

(p) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

(q) Regional disarmament

(r) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels
(s) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia

(t) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction

A/53/73-S/1998/163 and Corr.1 - Letter dated 25 February 1998 from the Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

A/53/348 - United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa: report of the Secretary-General

(a) United Nations Disarmament Information Programme

(b) United Nations disarmament fellowship training and advisory services

(c) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific

(d) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa

A/53/369 - Activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa: report of the Secretary-General

(e) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons

(a) Report of the Disarmament Commission

(b) Report of the Conference on Disarmament

(c) Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters

(d) United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

Agenda item 74. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East

Agenda item 75. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

A/53/159 - Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects: report of the Secretary-General

Agenda item 76: Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region

A/53/422 - Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region: report of the Secretary-General

Agenda item 77. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

Agenda item 78. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxic Weapons and on Their Destruction

Agenda item 79. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

A/53/132-S/1998/448 - Letter dated 29 May 1998 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

A/53/177 - Note verbale dated 10 July 1998 from the Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Agenda item 80. Rationalization of the work and reform of the agenda of the First Committee

A/C.1/52/L.51/Rev.2 - Revised draft decision submitted by the Chairman of the Committee

Other documents:

A/C.1/53/1 - Allocation of agenda items to the First Committee: letter dated 15 September 1998 from the President of the General Assembly to the Chairman of the First Committee

A/C.1/53/2 - Programme of work and timetable

A/C.1/53/3 - Letter dated 23 September 1998 from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General