United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 2016. Part I

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

• Publisher: United Nations
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9789213582510
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Intergovernmental Organizations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The volume 41 (Part I) compiles the disarmament resolutions and decisions of the Seventy-first session of the General Assembly, the voting patterns in the General Assembly and the First Committee report and dates of their adoption.

Office for Disarmament Affairs New York, 2017

The United Nations

DISARMAMENT YEARBOOK

Volume 41 (Part I): 2016

Disarmament Resolutions and Decisions of the Seventy-first Session of the United Nations General Assembly

Guide to the user

To facilitate early analysis of the resolutions and decisions on disarmament adopted at the seventy-first session of the General Assembly, UNODA offers Part I of the Yearbook as a handy, concise reference tool, containing the full texts of all the resolutions and decisions, the date of adoption by the Assembly and the First Committee, the agenda item number, the symbol number of the Report of the Rapporteur, the main sponsors and the voting patterns in the Assembly. For a snapshot of this information in a convenient chart, see “Quick view of votes by cluster”. For a list of agenda items and their corresponding reports, see the Annex.

Bold type in the list of sponsors indicates the State that introduced the draft resolution or decision. Throughout the book, any deviation in introducing and/or voting on resolutions is asterisked and explained in a corresponding footnote.

Voting statistics in this publication are presented as three sets of numbers separated by two dashes, where the first figure represents the total of votes in favour, followed by votes against and abstentions.

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Contents

Preface

Quick view of votes by cluster (64 resolutions and 5 decisions)

Resolutions

71/26African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty

71/27Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

71/28Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security

71/29Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East

71/30Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

71/31Prevention of an arms race in outer space

71/32No first placement of weapons in outer space

71/33The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation

71/34Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction

71/35Information on confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms

71/36Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities

71/37Reducing nuclear danger

71/38Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction

71/39confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context

71/40Regional disarmament

71/41Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels

71/42Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities

71/43Mongolia’s international security and nuclear-weapon-free status

71/44Transparency in armaments

71/45Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions

71/46Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons

71/47Humanitarian pledge for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons

71/48The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects

71/49United action with renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons

71/50The Arms Trade Treaty

71/51Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas

71/52Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them

71/53Decreasing the operational readiness of nuclear weapons systems

71/54Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments

71/55Ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world

71/56Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control

71/57United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education

71/58Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuc...