A/RES/76/56
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 101 (a)
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document
of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly:
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of
Nuclear Weapons
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/445, para. 17)]
76/56.
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons
The General Assembly,
Convinced that the use of nuclear weapons poses the most serious threat to the
survival of humankind,
Bearing in mind the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice of
8 July 1996 on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons, 1
Convinced that a multilateral, universal and binding agreement prohibiting the
use or threat of use of nuclear weapons would contribute to the elimination of the
nuclear threat and to the climate for negotiations leading to the ultimate elimination
of nuclear weapons, thereby strengthening international peace and security,
Conscious that some steps have been taken by the Russian Federation and the
United States of America towards a reduction of their nuclear weapons and that
further steps – in all relevant formats – on nuclear arms control and disarmament can
contribute to the improvement of the international climate and the goal of the
complete elimination of nuclear weapons,
Recalling that, in paragraph 58 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special
Session of the General Assembly, 2 it is stated that all States should actively participate
in efforts to bring about conditions in international relations among States in which a
code of peaceful conduct of nations in international affairs could be agreed upon and
which would preclude the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons,
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21-18501 (E)
A/51/218, annex.
Resolution S-10/2.
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