United Nations

A/RES/64/65
Distr.: General 14 January 2010

General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session Agenda item 98 (b)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the First Committee (A/64/393)]

64/65. Report of the Disarmament Commission
The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Disarmament Commission, 1 Recalling its resolutions 47/54 A of 9 December 1992, 47/54 G of 8 April 1993, 48/77 A of 16 December 1993, 49/77 A of 15 December 1994, 50/72 D of 12 December 1995, 51/47 B of 10 December 1996, 52/40 B of 9 December 1997, 53/79 A of 4 December 1998, 54/56 A of 1 December 1999, 55/35 C of 20 November 2000, 56/26 A of 29 November 2001, 57/95 of 22 November 2002, 58/67 of 8 December 2003, 59/105 of 3 December 2004, 60/91 of 8 December 2005, 61/98 of 6 December 2006, 62/54 of 5 December 2007 and 63/83 of 2 December 2008, 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, 1. Takes note of the report of the Disarmament Commission; 1

2. Reaffirms the validity of its decision 52/492 of 8 September 1998, concerning the efficient functioning of the Disarmament Commission; 3. Recalls its resolution 61/98, by which it adopted additional measures for improving the effectiveness of the Commission's methods of work; 4. Reaffirms the mandate 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; 5. Also reaffirms the importance of further enhancing the dialogue and cooperation among the First Committee, the Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament; _______________
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6. 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 Assembl y, 2 and with paragraph 3 of Assembly resolution 37/78 H of 9 December 1982, and to that end to make ever y effort to achieve specific recommendations on the items on its agenda, taking into account the adopted "Ways and means to enhance the functioning of the Disarmament Commission"; 3 7. Recommends that the Disarmament Commission continue the consideration of the following items at its substantive session of 2010: (a) Recommendations for achieving the objective of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons; (b) decade; Elements of a draft declaration of the 2010s as the fourth disarmament

(c) Practical confidence-building measures in the field of conventional weapons. This item will be taken up upon the conclusion of the preparation of the elements of a draft declaration of the 2010s as the fourth disarmament decade, preferably by 2010 and in any case no later than 2011; 8. Requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding three weeks during 2010, namely from 29 March to 16 April, and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session; 9. Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament, 4 together with all the official records of the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembl y relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implementing the present resolution; 10. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure full provision to the Disarmament Commission and its subsidiary bodies of interpretation and translation facilities in the official languages and to assign, as a matter of priority, all the necessary resources and services, including verbatim records, to that end; 11. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fifth session the item entitled "Report of the Disarmament Commission". 55th plenary meeting 2 December 2009

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Resolution S-10/2. A/CN.10/137. 4 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/64/27).

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