A/RES/76/46
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 100 (b)
General and complete disarmament: nuclear disarmament
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/444, para. 93)]
76/46.
Nuclear disarmament
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 49/75 E of 15 December 1994 on a step-by-step
reduction of the nuclear threat, and its resolutions 50/70 P of 12 December 1995,
51/45 O of 10 December 1996, 52/38 L of 9 December 1997, 53/77 X of 4 December
1998, 54/54 P of 1 December 1999, 55/33 T of 20 November 2000, 56/24 R of
29 November 2001, 57/79 of 22 November 2002, 58/56 of 8 December 2003, 59/77
of 3 December 2004, 60/70 of 8 December 2005, 61/78 of 6 December 2006, 62/42
of 5 December 2007, 63/46 of 2 December 2008, 64/53 of 2 December 2009, 65/56
of 8 December 2010, 66/51 of 2 December 2011, 67/60 of 3 December 2012, 68/47
of 5 December 2013, 69/48 of 2 December 2014, 70/52 of 7 December 2015, 71/63
of 5 December 2016, 72/38 of 4 December 2017, 73/50 of 5 December 2018, 74/45
of 12 December 2019 and 75/63 of 7 December 2020 on nuclear disarmament,
Reaffirming the commitment of the international community to the goal of the total
elimination of nuclear weapons and the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free world,
Bearing in mind that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and
on Their Destruction of 1972 1 and the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their
Destruction of 1993 2 have already established legal regimes on the complete
prohibition of biological and chemical weapons, respectively, and determined to
achieve a comprehensive nuclear weapons convention on the prohibition of the
development, testing, production, stockpiling, loan, transfer, use and threat of use of
nuclear weapons and on their destruction, and to conclude such an international
convention at an early date,
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21-18445 (E)
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1015, No. 14860.
Ibid., vol. 1974, No. 33757.
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