A/RES/76/25
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 100 (ee)
General and complete disarmament: ethical imperatives
for a nuclear-weapon-free world
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/444, para. 93)]
76/25.
Ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 75/73 of 7 December 2020, adopted on the occasion of
the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, which was established to save
succeeding generations from the untold suffering of the scourge of war, and its
resolution 74/47 of 12 December 2019,
Recalling also that the United Nations emerged at the time of the immense trail
of death and destruction resulting from the Second World War, over 75 years ago,
Recalling further the noble principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
which enjoin the international community, individually and collectively, to spare no
effort in promoting the ethical imperative of “in larger freedom”, so that all peoples
may enjoy freedom from want, freedom from fear and the freedom to live in dignity,
Convinced that, given the catastrophic humanitarian consequences and risks
associated with a nuclear weapon detonation, Member States have long envisaged
nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation as urgent and interlinked ethical
imperatives in achieving the objectives of the Charter, which is reflected in the first
resolution, resolution 1 (I), adopted by the General Assembly on 24 January 1946,
aimed at the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other
major weapons adaptable to mass destruction,
Acknowledging, in this connection, the ethical imperatives outlined in the
provisions of its resolutions and reports and those of other related international
initiatives on the catastrophic humanitarian consequences and risks posed by a
nuclear weapon detonation, including the declaration that the use of nucle ar weapons
would cause indiscriminate suffering and as such is a violation of the Charter and the
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