A/RES/76/49
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 100 (q)
General and complete disarmament: towards a nuclearweapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of
nuclear disarmament commitments
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/444, para. 93)]
76/49.
Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the
implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 1 (I) of 24 January 1946, 71/54 of 5 December 2016,
72/39 of 4 December 2017, 73/70 of 5 December 2018, 74/46 of 12 December 2019
and 75/65 of 7 December 2020,
Noting the twenty-third anniversary of the launch of the New Agenda Coalition
and the joint declaration outlining a new agenda for disarmament, adopted in Dublin
on 9 June 1998, 1
Welcoming the Secretary-General’s disarmament agenda, Securing Our
Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament, and emphasizing the importance of its
implementation,
Reiterating its grave concern at the danger to humanity posed by nuclear
weapons, which should inform all deliberations, decisions and actions relating to
nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation,
Recalling the expression of deep concern by the 2010 Review Conference of the
Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the catastrophic
humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, and its resolve to s eek a
safer world for all and to achieve the peace and security of a world without nuclear
weapons, 2
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21-18449 (E)
A/53/138, annex.
See 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non -Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, Final Document, vol. I (NPT/CONF.2010/50 (Vol. I)), part I, Conclusions and
recommendations for follow-on actions.
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