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							GENERAL

							A/RES/49/77
							9 January 1995






Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 64


	RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

	[on the report of the First Committee (A/49/701)]


		49/77.	Review of the implementation of the 
recommendations and decisions 
adopted by the General Assembly at 
its tenth special session


	A

	Report of the Disarmament Commission

	The General Assembly,

	Having considered the annual report of the Disarmament 
Commission, /

	Recalling its resolutions 47/54 A of 9 December 1992, 47/54 
G of 8 April 1993 and 48/77 A of 16 December 1993,

	Considering the role that the Disarmament Commission has 
been called upon to play and the contribution that it should make 
in examining and submitting recommendations on various problems 
in the field of disarmament and in the promotion of the 
implementation of the relevant decisions adopted by the General 
Assembly at its tenth special session,

	Noting the various suggestions for possible consideration by 
the Disarmament Commission, at an appropriate future date, 
including in particular the one for reconsideration of the 
subject "The role of science and technology in the context of 
international security, disarmament and other related fields",

	1.	Takes note of the annual report of the Disarmament 
Commission; 1/

	2.	Notes with regret that the Disarmament Commission was 
unable to achieve agreement on guidelines and recommendations 
under its the agenda item entitled "The role of science and 
technology in the context of international security, disarmament 
and other related fields", consideration of which was concluded 
in 1994;

	3.	Notes the continuing consideration by the Disarmament 
Commission of its agenda item entitled "Process of nuclear 
disarmament in the framework of international peace and security, 
with the objective of the elimination of nuclear weapons", which 
is to be concluded in 1995;

	4.	Notes also that the Disarmament Commission held a 
preliminary exchange of views on its agenda item entitled 
"International arms transfers, with particular reference to 
General Assembly resolution 46/36 H of 6 December 1991";

	5.	Reaffirms the importance of further enhancing the 
dialogue and cooperation among the First Committee, the 
Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament;

	6.	Reaffirms also the role of the Disarmament Commission 
as the specialized, deliberative body within the United Nations 
multilateral disarmament machinery that allows for in-depth 
deliberations on specific disarmament issues, leading to the 
submission of concrete recommendations on those issues;

	7.	Encourages the Disarmament Commission to continue to 
make every effort to enhance its working methods so as to enable 
it to give focused consideration to a limited number of priority 
issues in the field of disarmament, bearing in mind the decision 
it has taken to move its agenda towards a three-item phased 
approach;

	8.	Requests the Disarmament Commission to continue its 
work in accordance with its mandate, as set forth in paragraph 
118 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the 
General Assembly, // and with paragraph 3 of resolution 37/78 H 
of 9 December 1982, and to that end to make every effort to 
achieve specific recommendations on the items of its agenda, 
taking into account the adopted "Ways and means to enhance the 
functioning of the Disarmament Commission"; //

	9.	Recommends that the Disarmament Commission, at its 1994 
organizational session, adopt the following items for 
consideration at its 1995 substantive session:

	(a)	Process of nuclear disarmament in the framework of 
international peace and security, with the objective of the 
elimination of nuclea
     //	Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-ninth Session, 
Supplement No. 42 (A/49/42).


95-76051
     //	Resolution S-10/2.
     //	A/CN.10/137 of 27 April 1990.
 



 

 

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