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NEW YORK, Oct 28 (KUNA) -- UN General Assembly decided to hold next year a UN conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.
Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations a General Assembly vote adopted a resolution, reaffirming the urgency of securing substantive progress in multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations.
Deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons, and deeply concerned about the risks related to the existence of nuclear weapons, the draft was supported by 123 states, 38 states against, and 16 abstentions.
The newly adopted resolution recommended that additional efforts can and should be pursued to elaborate concrete effective legal measures, legal provisions, and norms that will need to be concluded to attain and maintain a world without nuclear weapons. It also reaffirmed the importance of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the commitments made therein, and considered that the pursuit of any such measures, provisions and norms should complement and strengthen the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, including the three pillars of the Treaty.
The resolution decided that the conference shall convene in New York, under the rules of procedure of the General Assembly unless otherwise agreed by the conference, from March 27-31 and from June 15 to July 7, 2017, with the participation and contribution of international organizations and civil society representatives. (end)
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