A/RES/76/48
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 100 (gg)
General and complete disarmament: Universal Declaration
on the Achievement of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/444, para. 93)]
76/48.
Universal Declaration on the Achievement of a Nuclear-WeaponFree World
The General Assembly,
Recalling its long-standing support for the total elimination of all nuclear
weapons, its resolution 70/57 of 7 December 2015, by which it adopted the Universal
Declaration on the Achievement of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, and its resolution
73/57 of 5 December 2018,
Recognizing the need to achieve a world without nuclear weapons,
Emphasizing, in this regard, the fundamental role of the agreement on the Final
Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly of 30 June 1978, 1 in
which it is stated, inter alia, that “effective measures of nuclear disarmament and the
prevention of nuclear war have the highest priority”,
Emphasizing also the crucial role of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons 2 in achieving nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation,
and recalling in particular the unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States
to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, leading to nuclear
disarmament, in accordance with commitments made under article VI of the Treaty,
agreed to at the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and reaffirmed by the 2010 Review
Conference,
Bearing in mind the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on
the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weap ons, issued on 8 July 1996, 3 in which
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