68th Session of the General Assembly

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Draft Resolutions tabled at the First Committee


A/C.1/68/L.1
Establishment of a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East

A/C.1/68/L.2
The Risk of Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East
A/C.1/68/L.3 GCD: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
A/C.1/68/L.4 GCD: The arms trade treaty

A/C.1/68/L.5
Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by
the General Assembly at its tenth special session: Report of the Disarmament Commission
A/C.1/68/L.6A/C.1/68/L.6/Rev.1 GCD: Follow up to the 2013 High-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.7
GCD: Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control

A/C.1/68/L.8
General and complete disarmament: Missiles

A/C.1/68/L.9

A/C.1/68/L.9/Rev.1
GCD: Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them

A/C.1/68/L.10
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction

A/C.1/68/L.11
GCD: Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995, 2000 and 2010 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

A/C.1/68/L.12
Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security

A/C.1/68/L.13
Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace

A/C.1/68/L.14
GCD: Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control

A/C.1/68/L.15
GCD: Relationship between disarmament and development

A/C.1/68/L.16
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.17
GCD: Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation

A/C.1/68/L.18
GCD: Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments

A/C.1/68/L.19
Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region

A/C.1/68/L.20
GCD: Reducing nuclear danger

A/C.1/68/L.21
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

A/C.1/68/L.22
Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.23
GCD: Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction

A/C.1/68/L.24
Revitalizing the work of the Conference on Disarmament and taking forward multilateral disarmament negotiations

A/C.1/68/L.25
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document
of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific

A/C.1/68/L.26
GCD: Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons

A/C.1/68/L.27
Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session: Report of the Conference on Disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.28
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be
Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

A/C.1/68/L.29

A/C.1/68/L.29/Rev.1
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

A/C.1/68/L.30
GCD: Transparency in armaments

A/C.1/68/L.31
GCD: National legislation on transfer of arms, military equipment and dual use goods and technology

A/C.1/68/L.32
GCD: Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction

A/C.1/68/L.33

A/C.1/68/L.33*

A/C.1/68/L.33/Rev.1
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

A/C.1/68/L.34
GCD: Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations

A/C.1/68/L.35
GCD: Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices

A/C.1/68/L.36

A/C.1/68/L.36*
GCD: Nuclear disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.37
Developments in the field of information
and telecommunications in the context of international security

A/C.1/68/L.38
GCD: The Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects

A/C.1/68/L.39

A/C.1/68/L.39/Rev.1
General and complete disarmament: Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty)

A/C.1/68/L.40
General and complete disarmament: Transparency and
confidence-building measures in outer space activities

A/C.1/68/L.41
Prevention of an arms race in outer space

A/C.1/68/L.42

A/C.1/68/L.42/Rev.1
Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America
and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

A/C.1/68/L.43
GCD: United action towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons

A/C.1/68/L.44
GCD: Reduction of military budgets: Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus

A/C.1/68/L.45
Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures

A/C.1/68/L.46
African Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone Treaty

A/C.1/68/L.47
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa

A/C.1/68/L.48
GCD: Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes

A/C.1/68/L.49
Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

A/C.1/68/L.50
GCD: Regional disarmament

A/C.1/68/L.51
GCD: Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context

A/C.1/68/L.52
GCD: Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels

A/C.1/68/L.53

A/C.1/68/L.53/Rev.1
Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations
Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa

A/C.1/68/L.54
Programme budget implications of draft resolution A/C.1/68/L.37 – Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security

Chair’s Statement

High Representative Statements

 

Countries, Groups and Organisations’ Statements

Civil Society and NGO Presentations

Secretary-General’s Reports

A/68/96 Further measures in the field of disarmament for the prevention of an arms race on the seabed and the ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof
A/68/98 GGE on Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
A/68/99A/68/99/Add.1 Confidence-building measures in the regional and sub-regional context
A/68/112 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific
A/68/114 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa
A/68/118A/68/118/Add.1 Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control
A/68/119A/68/119/Add.1 Relationship between disarmament and development
A/68/124 (Part I)A/68/124 (Part I)/Add.1

A/68/124 (Part I)/Add.2

A/68/124 (Part II)
Consolidated report on:
– Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East
– The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East
A/68/131

A/68/131/Add.1

Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures
A/68/132 Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
A/68/133A/68/133/Add.1 Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels
A/68/134 United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and development in Latin America and the Caribbean
A/68/136 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
A/68/137 Consolidated report on:
– Reducing nuclear danger
– Nuclear disarmament
– International Court of Justice
A/68/138A/68/138/Add.1 United Nations Register of Conventional Arms
A/68/139 Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the annual report of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO)
A/68/140 Report of the GGE on United Nations Register of Conventional Arms
A/68/152A/68/152/Add.1 Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation
A/68/154A/68/154/Add.1 Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices
A/68/156A/68/156/Add.1 Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
A/68/160 Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the annual report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
A/68/164A/68/164/Add.1 Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons mass destruction
A/68/166A/68/166/Add.1 Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control
A/68/171 Consolidated report on:
– Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them;
– The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects
A/68/182 Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
A/68/189A/68/189* Report of the GGE on Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities
A/68/206 Work of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
A/68/272A/68/272/Add.1A/68/272/Add.1* The Arms Trade Treaty
A/68/27 Report of the Conference on Disarmament
A/68/42 Supplement No. 42 Disarmament Commission
A/AC.281/2A/68/514 Report of the Open-ended Working Group to develop proposals to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations for the achievement and maintenance of a world without nuclear weapons
A/68/384 Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa