Seventieth Session of the General Assembly

The 70th General Assembly on Disarmament and International Security

First Committee Press Releases, Draft Resolutions, Statements, Secretary-General’s Reports, and Side Events

Press Releases

Draft Resolutions tabled at the First Committee

A/C.1/70/INF/3 *

Situation reports of the First Committee on agenda items 88 to 105, 120 and 135 ( Note by the Secretariat )

A/C.1/70/L.1

Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East

A/C.1/70/L.2

The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East

A/C.1/70/L.3

Prevention of an arms race in outer space

A/C.1/70/L.4
A/C.1/70/L.4/REV.1

2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and its Preparatory Committee

A/C.1/70/L.5

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region

A/C.1/70/L.6
A/C.1/70/L.6*

Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them

A/C.1/70/L.7

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

A/C.1/70/L.8

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.1/70/L.9

Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation

A/C.1/70/L.10

Relationship between disarmament and development

A/C.1/70/L.11

Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament – Open-ended Working Group on the Fourth Special Session of the GA devoted to disarmament

A/C.1/70/L.12

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction

A/C.1/70/L.13
A/C.1/70/L.13/Rev.1

Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations

A/C.1/70/L.14

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction

A/C.1/70/L.15

Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament

A/C.1/70/L.16

Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus

A/C.1/70/L.17

Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures

A/C.1/70/L.18

Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace

A/C.1/70/L.19

Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction

A/C.1/70/L.20

Reducing nuclear danger

A/C.1/70/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.1/70/L.22

Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament

A/C.1/70/L.23

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.1/70/L.24

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.1/70/L.25

Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices

A/C.1/70/L.26
A/C.1/70/L.26*

United action towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons

A/C.1/70/L.27
A/C.1/70/L.27/Rev.1*

GCD: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction

A/C.1/70/L.28
A/C.1/70/L.28/Rev.1*

GCD: Nuclear disarmament: Effective Measures on Nuclear Disarmament

A/C.1/70/L.29

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.1/70/L.30

Review of the implementation of the recommendations and
decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session: Thirty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

A/C.1/70/L.31

GCD: Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context

A/C.1/70/L.32

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

A/C.1/70/L.33

GCD: Regional disarmament

A/C.1/70/L.34

GCD: Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels

A/C.1/70/L.35
A/C.1/70/L.35*

Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas

A/C.1/70/L.35
A/C.1/70/L.36*

GCD: Countering the Threat Posed by Improvised Explosive Devices

A/C.1/70/L.37

GCD: Nuclear disarmament: Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons

A/C.1/70/L.38

GCD: Nuclear disarmament: Humanitarian Pledge for the Prohibition and Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

A/C.1/70/L.39

GCD: The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

A/C.1/70/L.40

GCD: Ethical Imperatives for a nuclear-weapons-free world

A/C.1/70/L.41
A/C.1/70/L.41/Rev.1

GCD: Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments

A/C.1/70/L.42

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.1/70/L.43
A/C.1/70/L.43/Rev.1
A/C.1/70/L.43/Rev.2

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.1/70/L.44

GCD: Nuclear disarmament

A/C.1/70/L.45

Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security

A/C.1/70/L.45

Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security

A/C.1/70/L.46

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

A/C.1/70/L.47

Prevention of an arms race in outer space: No first placement of weapons in outer space

A/C.1/70/L.48

GCD: Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities

A/C.1/70/L.48
A/C.1/70/L.48*

GCD: Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities

A/C.1/70/L.49
A/C.1/70/L.49/Rev.1

GCD: Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions

A/C.1/70/L.50

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.1/70/L.51

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.1/70/L.52
A/C.1/70/L.52/Rev.1

GCD Nuclear disarmament: Universal Declaration on the Achievement of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World

A/C.1/70/L.53

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.1/70/L.54

GCD: The Arms Trade Treaty

A/C.1/70/L.55

African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty

A/C.1/70/L.56

GCD: Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes

A/C.1/70/L.57

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.1/70/L.58
A/C.1/70/L.58*

GCD: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction

A/C.1/70/L.59

Programme budget implications of draft resolution A/C.1/70/L.45: Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security

A/C.1/70/2

Letter dated 27 September 2015 from the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations addressed to the
Secretary-General

Draft Resolutions tabled at the Fifth Committee

Reports of the Fifth Committee

Programme budget implications of the amendment (A/70/L.26)
to the decision recommended in the report of the First Committee (A/70/460)

Note by the Secretariat

Resolutions adopted by the 70th Session of the General Assembly

Chair’s Statement

Statement by the President of the 2015 NPT Review Conference

High Representative Statements

 

Countries, Groups and Organisations’ Statements

General Debate

Joint ad hoc meeting of First and Fourth Committees on possible challenges to space security and sustainability

Secretary-General’s Reports

A/70/27 Report of the Conference on Disarmament
A/70/42
(Supplement
No.42)
Report of the Disarmament Commission
for 2015
A/70/81 Report of the GGE on Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices
A/70/114 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific
(Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly)
A/70/116 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly)
A/70/117 Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the annual report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
A/70/138 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly)
A/70/139
A/70/139/Add.1
Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures
A/70/153
(PART I)
A/70/153
(PART I)/ADD.1
A/70/153
(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/70/155 Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control (General and complete disarmament)
A/70/157 Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation
A/70/159 Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the annual report of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO)
A/70/160
A/70/160/Add.1
Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
A/70/163
A/70/163/Add.1
Relationship between disarmament and development (General and complete disarmament)
A/70/164
A/70/164/Add.1
Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels (General and complete disarmament)
A/70/165 Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa
A/70/168
A/70/168/Add.1
Transparency in armaments: United Nations Register of Conventional Arms
A/70/169
A/70/169/Add.1
Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring acquiring weapons of mass destruction
A/70/170
A/70/170/Add.1
Confidence building measures in the regional and subregional context
A/70/171 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
A/70/172
A/70/172/Add.1
Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
A/70/174 Report of the GGE on Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
A/70/177 Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
A/70/181 Consolidated report on:
Reducing nuclear danger;Nuclear disarmament;International Court of Justice
A/70/182
A/70/182/Add.1
Follow up to the 2013 High level meeting on nuclear disarmament
A/70/183 Consolidated report on: Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them; and the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects (General and complete disarmament)
A/70/186 Work of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters

Rapporteur’s Reports of the First Committee

A/70/451 Reduction of military budgets
A/70/452
Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace
A/70/453 African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
A/70/454 Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security
A/70/455 Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
A/70/456 Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East
A/70/458 Prevention of an arms race in outer space
A/70/459 Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament
A/70/460 General and complete disarmament
A/70/461 Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly
A/70/462 Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session
A/70/463 The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East
A/70/464 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/70/465 Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
A/70/466 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
A/70/467 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological)
and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction
A/70/468 Revitalizing the work of the Conference on Disarmament and taking forward multilateral disarmament negotiations
A/70/516 Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly
A/70/517 Programme planning