SUBJECT OF RESOLUTION: Debt Relief for Less Developed Countries

SUBMITTED TO: Economic

SUBMITTED BY: Argentina

SEEKING TO promote a more equitable distribution of wealth and to promote the accelerated development of less developed countries,

1. CALLS UPON creditor nations and financial institutions to forgive or restructure the foreign debts of those less developed nations;

2. AUTHORIZES the creation of an international task force under U.N. supervision to mediate or arbitrate the forgiveness or restructuring of foreign debt.

Committee: Disarmament and International Security
Subject: Nuclear Disarmament
Sponsored by: Lebanon and Libya

Preamble
Delegates, the members of the Disarmament and International Security Committee have studied the issue of nuclear disarmament and come to the following conclusions:

1. Understanding that countries with nuclear weapons do not want to give up their weapons;

2. Realizing that the reduction still leaves the nuclear powers in control;

3. Deeply disturbed by the possibility of nuclear weapons falling in the hands of terrorists; therefore

Operative Clause
Be it resolved that the United Nations:

1. Proclaim that all nations retain the right to hold nuclear weapons in order to protect themselves;

2. Urge all nations to report their nuclear inventory to the United nations on a yearly basis;

3. Remind all nations that if the Security Council finds them to be using their nuclear power irresponsibly, the Security Council will reprimand them;

4. Request all nations to monitor the known terrorist groups known to control nuclear weapons within their borders;

5. Request all nations to report any terrorist groups known to control nuclear weapons to the Security Council to be reprimanded;

6. Remind all nations that if they are found to be withholding knowledge of terrorist groups controlling nuclear weapons, the Security Council will reprimand them.

Countries signing support of this proposed resolution (A-1)

Jordan, Kenya, Iraq, Germany, Malaysia, Paraguay, Congo, Bosnia, Israel, Indonesia, Tunisia, Egypt, Gabon, North Korea, Pakistan, Uruguay, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago

RESOLUTION 1243 (1999)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 4009th meeting,
on 27 May 1999

The Security Council,

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force of 18 May 1999 (S/1999/575),

Decides:

(a) To call upon the parties concerned to implement immediately its resolution 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973;

(b) To renew the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force for another period of six months, that is, until 30 November 1999;

(c) To request the Secretary-general to submit, at the end of this period, a report on the development in the situation and the measures taken to implement Security Council resolution 338 (1973).

K
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT,
PRODUCTION, STOCKPILING AND USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND
ON THEIR DESTRUCTION

The General Assembly,

Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject of chemical weapons, in particular resolution 55/33 H of 20 November 2000, adopted without a vote, in which it noted with appreciation the ongoing work to achieve the objective and purpose of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction,27

Determined to achieve the effective prohibition of the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and their destruction,

Noting with satisfaction that since the adoption of resolution 55/33 H, three additional States have ratified or acceded to the Convention, bringing the total number of States parties to the Convention to one hundred and forty-three,

1. Emphasizes the necessity of universal adherence to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, 27 and calls upon all States that have not yet done so to become parties to the Convention without delay;

2. Notes with appreciation the ongoing work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to achieve the objective and purpose of the Convention, to ensure the full implementation of its provisions, including those for international verification of compliance with it, and to provide a forum for consultation and cooperation among States parties;

3. Stresses the importance of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in verifying compliance with the provisions of the Convention as well as in promoting the timely and efficient accomplishment of all its objectives;

4. Also stresses the vital importance of full and effective implementation of and compliance with all provisions of the Convention;

5. Urges all States parties to the Convention to meet in full and on time their obligations under the Convention and to support the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in its implementation activities;

6. Stresses the importance to the Convention that all possessors of chemical weapons, chemical weapons production facilities or chemical weapons development facilities, including previously declared possessor States, should be among the States parties to the Convention, and welcomes progress to that end;

7. Welcomes the cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the signature of the Relationship Agreement between the United Nations and the Organization, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention;

8. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction.

68th plenary meeting
29 November 2001
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26 CD/1299.
27 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/47/27), appendix I.
28 See A/43/398, annex I.
29 See A/44/603, annex I.
30 See International Atomic Energy Agency, Resolutions and Other Decisions of the General Conference, Thirty-fourth Regular Session, 17-21 September 1990 (GC(XXXIV)/RESOLUTIONS (1990)).
31 A/51/131, annex I, para. 20.
32 The Conference of the Committee on Disarmament became the Committee on Disarmament as from the tenth special session of the General Assembly. The Committee on Disarmament was redesignated the Conference on Disarmament as from 7 February 1984.