A/RES/53/77 Page 17 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control”. 79th plenary meeting 4 December 1998 K RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISARMAMENT AND DEVELOPMENT The General Assembly, Recalling the provisions of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly1 concerning the relationship between disarmament and development, Recalling also the adoption on 11 September 1987 of the Final Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development,35 Recalling further its resolutions 49/75 J of 15 December 1994, 50/70 G of 12 December 1995, 51/45 D of 10 December 1996 and 52/38 D of 9 December 1997, Bearing in mind the Final Document of the Twelfth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Durban, South Africa, from 29 August to 3 September 1998,23 Stressing the growing importance of the symbiotic relationship between disarmament and development in current international relations, 1. Acknowledges the report of the Secretary-General36 and actions taken in accordance with the Final Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development;35 2. Urges the international community to devote part of the resources made available by the implementation of disarmament and arms limitation agreements to economic and social development, with a view to reducing the ever widening gap between developed and developing countries; 3. Invites all Member States to communicate to the Secretary-General, by 15 April 1999, their views and proposals for the implementation of the action programme adopted at the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development,37 as well as any other views and proposals with a view to achieving the goals of the action programme, within the framework of current international relations; 35 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8. 36 A/53/206. 37 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8, para. 35. /...

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