Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, G.A. res. 50/79, U.N. Doc. A/RES/50/79 (1995)



          
      The General Assembly,
 
      Recalling its previous resolutions relating to the complete and
effective prohibition of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and to
their destruction,
 
      Noting with satisfaction that there are more than one hundred and thirty
States parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons
and on Their Destruction, including all the permanent members of the Security
Council, 
 
      Bearing in mind its call upon all States parties to the Convention to
participate in the implementation of the recommendations of the Third Review
Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and
Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, including the exchange of information
and data agreed to in the Final Declaration of the Third Review Conference,
and to provide such information and data in conformity with standardized
procedure to the Secretary-General on an annual basis and no later than 15
April,
 
      Recalling its resolution 46/35 A, adopted without a vote on 6 December
1991, in which it welcomed, inter alia, the establishment, proceeding from the
recommendations of the Third Review Conference, of an ad hoc group of
governmental experts open to all States parties to identify and examine
potential verification measures from a scientific and technical standpoint,
 
      Recalling also its resolution 48/65, adopted without a vote on 16
December 1993, in which it commended the final report of the Ad Hoc Group of
Governmental Experts to Identify and Examine Potential Verification Measures
from a Scientific and Technical Standpoint, agreed to by consensus at the last
meeting of the Ad Hoc Group at Geneva on 24 September 1993,
 
      Recalling further its resolution 49/86, adopted without a vote on 15
December 1994, in which it welcomed the final report of the Special Conference
of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons
and on Their Destruction, adopted by consensus on 30 September 1994, in which
the States parties agreed to establish an ad hoc group, open to all States
parties, whose objective should be to consider appropriate measures, including
possible verification measures, and draft proposals to strengthen the
Convention, to be included, as appropriate, in a legally binding instrument to
be submitted for the consideration of the States parties,
 
      Recalling the provisions of the Convention related to scientific and
technological cooperation and the related provisions of the Final Document of
the Third Review Conference, the final report of the Ad Hoc Group of
Governmental Experts and the final report of the Special Conference of the
States Parties to the Convention, held from 19 to 30 September 1994,
 
      1.    Welcomes the information and data provided to date, and reiterates
its call upon all States parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and
Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction to participate in the exchange of
information and data agreed to in the Final Declaration of the Third Review
Conference of the Parties to the Convention;
 
      2.    Also welcomes the work begun by the Ad Hoc Group in pursuing the
mandate established by the Special Conference of the States Parties to the
Convention on 30 September 1994 and urges the Ad Hoc Group, in accordance with
its mandate, to complete its work as soon as possible and submit its report,
which shall be adopted by consensus, to the States parties to be considered at
the Fourth Review Conference or later at a Special Conference;
 
      3.    Requests the Secretary-General to continue to render the necessary
assistance to the depository Governments of the Convention and to provide such
services as may be required for the implementation of the decisions and
recommendations of the Third Review Conference, as well as the decisions
contained in the final report of the Special Conference, including all
necessary assistance to the Ad Hoc Group;
 
      4.    Notes that, at the request of the States parties, a Fourth Review
Conference of the Parties to the Convention will be held at Geneva from 25
November to 13 December 1996, that, following appropriate consultations, a
Preparatory Committee for that Conference has been formed, open to all parties
to the Convention, and that the Committee will meet at Geneva from 9 to 12
April 1996;
 
      5.    Requests the Secretary-General to render the necessary assistance
and to provide such services as may be required for the Fourth Review
Conference and its preparations;
 
      6.    Calls upon all signatory States that have not yet ratified the
Convention to do so without delay, and also calls upon those States that have
not signed the Convention to become parties thereto at an early date, thus
contributing to the achievement of universal adherence to the Convention;
 
      7.    Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first
session the item entitled "Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons
and on Their Destruction".
      

 

 



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