68th Session of the General Assembly

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Draft Resolutions tabled at the First Committee


A/C.1/68/L.1		 Establishment of a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East

A/C.1/68/L.2		 The Risk of Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East
A/C.1/68/L.3 GCD: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
A/C.1/68/L.4 GCD: The arms trade treaty

A/C.1/68/L.5		 Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by
the General Assembly at its tenth special session: Report of the Disarmament Commission
A/C.1/68/L.6A/C.1/68/L.6/Rev.1 GCD: Follow up to the 2013 High-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.7		 GCD: Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control

A/C.1/68/L.8		 General and complete disarmament: Missiles

A/C.1/68/L.9
A/C.1/68/L.9/Rev.1		 GCD: Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them

A/C.1/68/L.10		 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction

A/C.1/68/L.11		 GCD: Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995, 2000 and 2010 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

A/C.1/68/L.12		 Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security

A/C.1/68/L.13		 Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace

A/C.1/68/L.14		 GCD: Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control

A/C.1/68/L.15		 GCD: Relationship between disarmament and development

A/C.1/68/L.16		 Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.17		 GCD: Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation

A/C.1/68/L.18		 GCD: Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments

A/C.1/68/L.19		 Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region

A/C.1/68/L.20		 GCD: Reducing nuclear danger

A/C.1/68/L.21		 Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons

A/C.1/68/L.22		 Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.23		 GCD: Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction

A/C.1/68/L.24		 Revitalizing the work of the Conference on Disarmament and taking forward multilateral disarmament negotiations

A/C.1/68/L.25		 Review and implementation of the Concluding Document
of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific

A/C.1/68/L.26		 GCD: Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons

A/C.1/68/L.27		 Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session: Report of the Conference on Disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.28		 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/C.1/68/L.29
A/C.1/68/L.29/Rev.1		 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

A/C.1/68/L.30		 GCD: Transparency in armaments

A/C.1/68/L.31		 GCD: National legislation on transfer of arms, military equipment and dual use goods and technology

A/C.1/68/L.32		 GCD: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction

A/C.1/68/L.33
A/C.1/68/L.33*
A/C.1/68/L.33/Rev.1		 Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

A/C.1/68/L.34		 GCD: Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations

A/C.1/68/L.35		 GCD: Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices

A/C.1/68/L.36
A/C.1/68/L.36*		 GCD: Nuclear disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.37		 Developments in the field of information
and telecommunications in the context of international security

A/C.1/68/L.38		 GCD: The Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

A/C.1/68/L.39
A/C.1/68/L.39/Rev.1		 General and complete disarmament: Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty)

A/C.1/68/L.40		 General and complete disarmament: Transparency and
confidence-building measures in outer space activities

A/C.1/68/L.41		 Prevention of an arms race in outer space

A/C.1/68/L.42
A/C.1/68/L.42/Rev.1		 Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America
and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

A/C.1/68/L.43		 GCD: United action towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons

A/C.1/68/L.44		 GCD: Reduction of military budgets: Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus

A/C.1/68/L.45		 Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures

A/C.1/68/L.46		 African Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone Treaty

A/C.1/68/L.47		 Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa

A/C.1/68/L.48		 GCD: Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes

A/C.1/68/L.49		 Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

A/C.1/68/L.50		 GCD: Regional disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.51		 GCD: Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context

A/C.1/68/L.52		 GCD: Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels

A/C.1/68/L.53
A/C.1/68/L.53/Rev.1		 Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations
Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa

A/C.1/68/L.54		 Programme budget implications of draft resolution A/C.1/68/L.37 – Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security

Chair’s Statement

High Representative Statements

 

Countries, Groups and Organisations’ Statements

General Debate

Thematic Debate on Nuclear Weapons

Thematic Debate on Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

Thematic Debate on Disarmament Aspects of Outer Space

Thematic Debate on Conventional Weapons

Thematic Debate on Other Disarmament Measures and International Security

Thematic Debate on Regional Disarmament and Security

Thematic Debate on Disarmament Machinery

Civil Society and NGO Presentations

Secretary-General’s Reports

A/68/96 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
A/68/98 GGE on Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
A/68/99A/68/99/Add.1 Confidence-building measures in the regional and sub-regional context
A/68/112 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific
A/68/114 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa
A/68/118A/68/118/Add.1 Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control
A/68/119A/68/119/Add.1 Relationship between disarmament and development
A/68/124 (Part I)A/68/124 (Part I)/Add.1

A/68/124 (Part I)/Add.2

A/68/124 (Part II)		 Consolidated report on:
– Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East
– The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East
A/68/131

A/68/131/Add.1

 Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures
A/68/132 Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
A/68/133A/68/133/Add.1 Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels
A/68/134 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and development in Latin America and the Caribbean
A/68/136 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
A/68/137 Consolidated report on:
– Reducing nuclear danger
– Nuclear disarmament
– International Court of Justice
A/68/138A/68/138/Add.1 United Nations Register of Conventional Arms
A/68/139 Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the annual report of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO)
A/68/140 Report of the GGE on United Nations Register of Conventional Arms
A/68/152A/68/152/Add.1 Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation
A/68/154A/68/154/Add.1 Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices
A/68/156A/68/156/Add.1 Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
A/68/160 Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the annual report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
A/68/164A/68/164/Add.1 Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons mass destruction
A/68/166A/68/166/Add.1 Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control
A/68/171 Consolidated report on:
– Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them;
– The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects
A/68/182 Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
A/68/189A/68/189* Report of the GGE on Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities
A/68/206 Work of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
A/68/272A/68/272/Add.1A/68/272/Add.1* The Arms Trade Treaty
A/68/27 Report of the Conference on Disarmament
A/68/42 Supplement No. 42 Disarmament Commission
A/AC.281/2A/68/514 Report of the Open-ended Working Group to develop proposals to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations for the achievement and maintenance of a world without nuclear weapons
A/68/384 Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa