Fissile Material talks (Fissban)

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UN General Assembly 48/75L Consensus Resolution, 16 December 1993

Prohibition of the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices

The General Assembly,

Welcoming the significant progress in reducing nuclear-weapon arsenals as evidenced by the substantive bilateral agreements between the Russian Federation and the USA and their respective unilateral undertakings regarding the disposition of fissile material,

Welcoming also the initiative of the USA concerning a multilateral, internationally and effectively verifiable treaty on the prohibition of the production of fissile material for the nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices,

Welcoming further the decision taken by the CD on 10 August 1993 to give its Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban a mandate to negotiate a universal and internationally and effectively verifiable comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, and fully endorsing the contents of that decision,

Convinced that a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices would be a significant contribution to nuclear non-proliferation in all its aspects,

1. Recommends the negotiation in the most appropriate international forum of a non-discriminatory multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;
2. Requests the IAEA to provide assistance for examination of verification arrangements for such a treaty as required;
3. Calls upon all states to demonstrate their commitment to the objectives of a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;
4. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth session an item entitled "Prohibition of the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nucelar explosive devices."

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