A/RES/76/36
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 100 (bb)
General and complete disarmament: follow-up to the
2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on
nuclear disarmament
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/444, para. 93)]
76/36.
Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly
on nuclear disarmament
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 67/39 of 3 December 2012, 68/32 of 5 December 2013,
69/58 of 2 December 2014, 70/34 of 7 December 2015, 71/71 of 5 December 2016,
72/251 of 24 December 2017, 73/40 of 5 December 2018, 74/54 of 12 December 2019
and 75/45 of 7 December 2020,
Welcoming the convening of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on
nuclear disarmament, on 26 September 2013, and recognizing its contribution to
furthering the objective of the total elimination of nuclear weapons,
Emphasizing the importance of seeking a safer world for all and achieving peace
and security in a world without nuclear weapons,
Reaffirming that effective measures of nuclear disarmament have the highest
priority, as affirmed at the first special session of the General Assembly devoted to
disarmament,
Convinced that nuclear disarmament and the total elimination of nuclear weapons
are the only absolute guarantee against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons,
Acknowledging the significant contribution made by a number of countries
towards realizing the objective of nuclear disarmament by the establishment of
nuclear-weapon-free zones, as well as by the voluntary renunciation of nuclear
weapon programmes or withdrawal of all nuclear weapons from their territories, and
strongly supporting the speedy establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the
Middle East,
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