 Disarmament Diplomacy
Issue No. 87, Spring 2008
2007 First Committee Resolutions
Summary and Explanations
Compiled on behalf of the Acronym Institute by Michael Spies,
Research Associate for the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy and
Editor of the Arms Control Reporter; assisted by Ray Acheson,
Project Associate for the Reaching Critical Will project of the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
See also: Stagnation and Redundancy:
Report on the 2007 UN First Committee, by Michael Spies.
Below is a comprehensive summary and analysis of the 49
resolutions and 3 decisions adopted by the 62nd First Committee and
General Assembly. Voting is given as: for-against-abstention. The
votes in the First Committee took place between October 30 and
November 2, 2007. The General Assembly adopted all the resolutions
and draft decisions featured here on December 5, 2007.
Voting is given as: for-against-abstention. The votes in
the First Committee took place between 30 October and 2 November
2007. The General Assembly adopted all the resolutions and draft
decisions featured here on 5 December 2007.
The First Committee votes are shown first, followed by voting
figures from the UN General Assembly. GA numbers are given for all
resolutions and decisions. "Rev" denotes a revised version of the
resolution was circulated subsequent to its introduction as an
official UN draft resolution. We identify the state that introduced
each resolution-normally this state would have also taken the lead
in drafting and negotiating with others on the text. For lists of
all co-sponsors, check the UN documents.
Vote tallies given here are from the official records. "Without
a vote" denotes that a resolution was adopted by consensus without
a recorded vote taken. Some countries state that they have not
participated in the consensus, while others prefer not to vote at
all and be counted absent. With regard to General Assembly votes,
states that are in serious arrears with their payments to the UN
are recorded as absent, whether or not they voted, which explains
why even the co-sponsors of some resolutions are not recorded in
the votes. There may also be discrepancies in voting figures due to
requests by delegations for their votes to be recorded after
missing or making mistakes during the electronic voting
procedure.
In some resolutions, separate votes were requested on specific
paragraphs or parts of paragraphs. In these cases, PP refers to
preambular paragraph and OP refers to operative paragraph. The
preambular paragraphs generally provide background and context on
the subject of a resolution, identify and apply general principles
of international law, and can broadly indicate the object and
purpose of a resolution. Operative paragraphs contain decisions and
requests, identifying action to be taken. However, General Assembly
resolutions are non-binding on UN member states.
For all statements, resolutions and non-papers from the First
Committee, see the Reaching Critical Will website:
www.reachingcriticalwill.org/political/1com/1comindex1.html#2007
For summaries of each week of the proceedings, see the First
Committee Monitor: www.reachingcriticalwill.org/political/1com/FCM.html.
Index
Biennial and Triennial Resolutions not Introduced in 2007
Nuclear Weapon Free Zones
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Mongolia's International Security and
Nuclear-Weapon-Free Status. |
2006 (UNGA 61/87) |
2008 |
Other Weapons of Mass Destruction
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva
Protocol. |
2006 (UNGA 61/61) |
2008 |
Conventional Weapons
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Information on confidence-building measures in the
field of conventional arms |
2006 (UNGA 61/79) |
2008 |
Regional Disarmament and Security
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Maintenance of international security-good
neighbourliness, stability and development in South-Eastern
Europe. |
2006 (UNGA 61/53) |
2008 |
Other Disarmament and International Security
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| United Nations Disarmament Information
Programme. |
2006 (UNGA 61/95) |
2008 |
| United Nations study on disarmament and
non-proliferation education. |
2006 (UNGA 61/73) |
2008 |
| Transparency in armaments. |
2006 (UNGA 61/77) |
2008 |
| Question of Antarctica. |
2005 (UNGA 60/47) |
2008 |
| Compliance with non-proliferation, arms limitation
and disarmament agreements. |
2005 (UNGA 60/55) |
2008 (tentative) |
Disarmament Machinery
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Prohibition of the development and manufacture of
new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such
weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament. |
2005 (UNGA 60/46) |
2008 |
Selected Other Resolutions not Introduced in 2007
(not including resolutions not likely to be reintroduced)
Other Disarmament and International Security
| Title |
Year last Introduced |
Year to be reintroduced |
| Prohibition of the production of fissile material
for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. |
2006 (withdrawn) |
2008 (tentative) |
| Problems arising from the accumulation of
conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus. |
2006 (UNGA 61/72) |
2008 |
| Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common
international standards for the import, export and transfer of
conventional arms. |
2006 (UNGA 61/89) |
2008 |
| Consolidation of peace through practical
disarmament measures. |
2006 (UNGA 61/76) |
2008 |
See also: Stagnation and Redundancy:
Report on the 2007 UN First Committee, by Michael Spies.
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