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4. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take action, through appropriate organs and within
available resources, for the implementation of the action programme adopted at the International
Conference;
5. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth
session;
6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled
“Relationship between disarmament and development”.
79th plenary meeting
4 December 1998
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MEASURES TO UPHOLD THE AUTHORITY OF THE 1925 GENEVA PROTOCOL
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, in particular resolution 51/45 P of 10 December
1996,
Determined to act with a view to achieving effective progress towards general and complete
disarmament under strict and effective international control,
Recalling the long-standing determination of the international community to achieve the effective
prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons as
well as the continuing support for measures to uphold the authority of the Protocol for the Prohibition of
the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare,
signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925,38 as expressed by consensus in many previous resolutions,
Welcoming the end of the cold war, the ensuing easing of international tension and the strengthening
of trust between States,
Welcoming also the initiatives by some States parties to withdraw their reservations to the 1925
Geneva Protocol,
1. Renews its previous call to all States to observe strictly the principles and objectives of the
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of
Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925,38 and reaffirms the vital necessity
of upholding its provisions;
2. Calls upon those States that continue to maintain reservations to the 1925 Geneva Protocol to
withdraw those reservations;
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