A/RES/76/34
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 100 (ii)
General and complete disarmament: Treaty on the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/444, para. 93)]
76/34.
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 72/31 of 4 December 2017, 73/48 of 5 December 2018,
74/41 of 12 December 2019 and 75/40 of 7 December 2020,
1.
Recalls the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 1
on 7 July 2017;
2.
Welcomes the entry into force of the Treaty on 22 January 2021;
3.
Notes that the Treaty has been open for signature at United Nations
Headquarters in New York since 20 September 2017;
4.
Welcomes that already 86 States had signed the Treaty and 55 States had
become parties to it as at 6 October 2021;
5.
Confirms that the Secretary-General of the United Nations is no longer
required to convene the first Meeting of States Parties within one year of the entry
into force of the Treaty in accordance with article 8, paragraph 2, thereof;
6.
Also confirms that the first Meeting of States Parties will be held from
22 to 24 March 2022 at the United Nations Office at Vienna, and requests the
Secretary-General to convene the first Meeting on those dates and the Secretariat to
make the appropriate arrangements to that end;
7.
Invites States not party to the Treaty, as well as the relevant entities of the
United Nations system, other relevant international organizations or institutions,
regional organizations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and relevant
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