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activities of the Campaign by the United Nations system during
1989 and those contemplated for1990.
Concerning a Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear
Weapons, the Committee will have before it the relevant parts of
the Conference on Disarmament report.
In its review of the 1982 special session, the First Committee
will also be examining the Secretary-General's reports on
disarmament and international security, the United Nations
disarmament fellowship, training and advisory services
programme, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and
Disarmament in Africa, the United Nations Regional Centre for
Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the United Nations Regional
Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America
and the Caribbean.
Scientific and Technological Developments
The question of "Scientific and technological developments and
their impact on international security" is a new item on the
Assembly's agenda. Before the Committee will be a report of the
Secretary-General (document A/44/487 and Add.1), containing
information provided by Finland, the Federal Republic of
Germany, Ghana, Mexico, the Soviet Union and Byelorussia.
Last year, the Assembly requested that Member States establish
national panels to monitor and evaluate "scientific and
technological developments, especially those which have
potential military applications, and to evaluate their impact on
international security". States were asked to communicate their
views and proposals, as well as the evaluations of the national
panels, to the Secretary-General.
In his report, the Secretary-General states that he will invite
qualified consultants to prepare individual assessments in their
specific areas of expertise, for wider consideration and
inclusion in a report to be submitted to the Assembly at its
next session. The fields being assessed will include
information, materials, space, nuclear and bio-technology.
Recommendations of Tenth Special Session
At its tenth special session in1978, the first special session
devoted to disarmament, the General Assembly decided to include
the question of review of the implementation of the
recommendations and decisions adopted at that session on the
agenda of its subsequent regular sessions. It also established
the Disarmament Commission.
The First Committee will consider the reports of the Disarmament
Commission and the Conference on Disarmament; the status of
multilateral
disarmament agreements; the work of the Advisory Board on
Disarmament Studies and the United Nations Institute for
Disarmament Research; review and appraisal of the implementation
of the Declaration of the 1980s as the Second Disarmament
Decade; non-use of nuclear weapons and prevention of nuclear war;
climatic effects of nuclear war, including nuclear winter;
cessation of the nuclear-arms race and nuclear disarmament;
prevention of nuclear war; Disarmament Week; a comprehensive
programme of disarmament; and the Declaration of the 1990s as
the Third Disarmament Decade. At its session last year, the
Assembly adopted 13resolutions under this item.
On the status of multilateral disarmament agreements, a report by
the Secretary-General, requested under resolution 36/92H,
contains a composite table of signatories of and parties to such
agreements.
Another report by the Secretary-General, requested under
resolution 38/183O, deals with the work of the Advisory Board on
Disarmament Studies.
A report by the Director of the United Nations Institute for
Disarmament Research, requested under resolution 39/148H, deals
with the activities carried out by the Institute.
On the review and appraisal of the implementation of the
Declaration of the 1980s as the Second Disarmament Decade, the
Committee will have before it an annual report of the
Secretary-General, requested under resolution 40/152L, on the
implementation of the Declaration.
On the non-use of nuclear weapons and prevention of nuclear war,
the Committee will have before it the relevant sections of the
Conference on Disarmament report.
A report by the Secretary-General on the climatic effects of
nuclear war, including nuclear winter (document A/44/514)
contains replies received from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Egypt,
Finland and Poland. The Assembly last year invited all Member
States to communicate their views on the subject.
When it took up the question of cessation of the nuclear-arms
race and nuclear disarmament, the Conference on Disarmament
considered such issues as the relationship between bilateral and
multilateral disarmament talks, the role of the Conference in
ending the arms race, nuclear-weapons non-proliferation, the
extension of the arms race into outer space, the verification of
nuclear disarmament measures, tactical nuclear weapons, the
Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM
Treaty), the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and
Shorter-Range Nuclear Missiles (INF Treaty), strategic arms
reduction talks (START), fissionable materials for nuclear
weapons and strengthening international security and stability.
On the prevention of nuclear war, the report of the Conference
on Disarmament states that it failed to reach agreement on
appropriate arrangements for dealing with the issue, including
proposals for the establishment of a subsidiary body to consider
the question.
Concerning Disarmament Week, the Committee will have before it a
report of the Secretary-General (document A/44/446 and Add.1),
containing information received from Byelorussia, Egypt, Mexico,
Mongolia, Romania, the Ukraine, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, the
German Democratic Republic and Poland on their activities in
connection with the Week.
Negotiations on a draft comprehensive programme of disarmament
continued within an AdHoc Committee of the Conference on
Disarmament, according to the report of the Conference. The
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