A/RES/73/238
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 20 (k)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/73/538/Add.11)]
73/238.
The role of the international community in the prevention
of the radiation threat in Central Asia
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 68/218 of 20 December 2013,
Taking into account the outcome of the high-level international forum entitled
“Uranium Tailings in Central Asia: Local Problems, Regional Consequences, Global
Solution”, held in Geneva on 29 June 2009,
Taking into account also the outcome of the international conference entitled
“Uranium Tailings in Central Asia: Joint Efforts in Risk Reduction ”, held in Bishkek
on 24 and 25 October 2012, and the subsequent conference held in Bishkek in
May 2018,
Noting the high-level events dedicated to the dangers associated with the former
uranium mining activities in Central Asia, which were initiated by the Government of
Kyrgyzstan and the European Union and held in New York on 20 September 2017
and on 27 September 2018 on the margins of the seventy-second and seventy-third
sessions of the General Assembly,
Taking into account the ongoing efforts of Central Asian States towards the
remediation of former uranium facilities in Central Asia,
Taking into account also the role of the international donor community in
providing support to the Central Asian States in addressing these problems at the
bilateral and multilateral levels,
Taking into account further the necessity for a strategic and coordinated
approach in the preparation and implementation of programmes aimed at solving the
problems associated with uranium tailings in Central Asia,
Taking into account the efforts made towards the remediation of uranium
tailings in Central Asia and the implementation of pr ojects carried out under the
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