General Assembly Adopts 52 First Committee Texts

Concerned about the proliferation risk of non-strategic nuclear weapons and of their early, preemptive, unauthorized or accidental use, the General Assembly today stressed the need for the nuclear-weapon States that possessed such weapons not to increase the number or types deployed and not to develop new types or rationalizations for their use, as it acted on resolutions and decisions on the recommendation by its First Committee (Disarmament and International Security). The draft resolution on implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace was adopted by a recorded vote of 130 in favour to 3 against, with 42 abstentions.
Julian R. Hunte (left), President of the fifty-eighth session of the General Assembly at today's plenary.