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Disarmament resolutions and decisions listed by chapter
non-discriminatory and global nuclear disarmament. Consistent with its position
on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, India abstained in the voting on
paragraph 8. As India supported the commencement of negotiations on an FMCT
in the CD, the question of a moratorium on the production of fissile material
for nuclear weapons did not arise and it therefore abstained in the voting on
paragraph 9. India had also abstained in the voting on paragraph 15, believing
that the concept of a comprehensive safeguards agreement was applicable
only to non-nuclear-weapon States parties to the NPT. India had concluded an
India-specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA and a protocol additional to
that agreement.
• Pakistan maintained that it could not accept the call to accede to the NPT
as a non-nuclear-weapon State without conditions. While it supported the
objective of the total elimination of nuclear weapons, it was opposed to the
immediate commencement of negotiations on an FMCT, which were selective,
discriminatory and unrealistic.
• Cuba believed that the draft resolution lacked the substantive elements to
effectively achieve the objective of general nuclear disarmament, which it
considered to be achievable through specific measures adopted on a verifiable
and non-discriminatory basis. With regard to the fifteenth preambular paragraph,
it was concerned that the Security Council was limited in composition and
tended to be selective in the treatment of the nuclear non-proliferation issue.
It also reiterated its deep concern about the slow movement towards nuclear
disarmament and the lack of progress by nuclear-weapon States on the total
elimination of their nuclear arsenals.
• Although it had consistently advocated the complete prohibition and total
elimination of nuclear weapons, China could not, however, support paragraph
9, relating to moratoriums on production, because it was not conducive to the
promotion of the early commencement of negotiations on an FMCT.
66/46. Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International
Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of
Nuclear Weapons
The General Assembly adopted this annual
resolution. It shared the deep concern at the
catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use
of nuclear weapons, and in this context reaffirmed
the need for all States at all times to comply
with applicable international law, including
international humanitarian law. It called upon all
Introduced by: Malaysia (14 Oct.)
GA vote: 130-26-23 (2 Dec.)
1st Cttee vote: 127-25-22 (27 Oct.)
For text, sponsors and voting pattern, see
Yearbook, Part I, pp. 115-119.
nuclear-weapon States to undertake concrete disarmament efforts and stressed that all
States needed to make special efforts to achieve and maintain a world without nuclear
weapons.
The Assembly again called upon all States to fulfil immediately the obligation
under the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice by commencing
multilateral negotiations leading to an early conclusion of a nuclear weapons
convention prohibiting the development, production, testing, deployment, stockpiling,
transfer, threat or use of nuclear weapons and providing for their elimination.
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