A/RES/76/35
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 100 (e)
General and complete disarmament: prohibition of the
dumping of radioactive wastes
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/444, para. 93)]
76/35.
Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind resolutions CM/Res.1153 (XLVIII) of 1988 1 and CM/Res.1225 (L)
of 1989, 2 adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity,
concerning the dumping of nuclear and industrial wastes in Africa,
Recalling resolution GC(XXXIV)/RES/530 establishing the Code of Practice on
the International Transboundary Movement of Radioactive Waste, adopted on
21 September 1990 by the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy
Agency at its thirty-fourth regular session,
Taking note of the commitment made by the participants in the Summit on
Nuclear Safety and Security, held in Moscow on 19 and 20 April 1996, to ban the
dumping at sea of radioactive wastes, 3
Considering its resolution 2602 C (XXIV) of 16 December 1969, in which the
General Assembly requested the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, 4
inter alia, to consider effective methods of control against the use of radiol ogical
methods of warfare,
Aware of the potential hazards underlying any use of radioactive wastes that
would constitute radiological warfare and its implications for regional and
international security, in particular for the security of developing countr ies,
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See A/43/398, annex I.
See A/44/603, annex I.
A/51/131, annex I, para. 20.
The Conference of the Committee on Disarmament became the Committee on Disarmament as
from the tenth special session of the General Assembly. The Committee on Disarmament was
redesignated the Conference on Disarmament as from 7 February 1984.
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