A/RES/53/77 Page 27 S TRANSPARENCY IN ARMAMENTS The General Assembly, Bearing in mind that in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, Member States have undertaken to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources, Considering the urgent need to accelerate efforts towards general and complete disarmament with a view to maintaining regional and international peace and security in a world free from the scourge of war and the burden of all types of armaments, Considering also that openness and transparency relating to all types of armaments would contribute greatly to confidence-building and security among States, Recognizing that an enhanced level of transparency relating to both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction and transfers of equipment and technologies directly related to the development and manufacture of such weapons, as well as to high technology with military applications, would promote stability, strengthen regional and international peace and security, and accelerate efforts towards general and complete disarmament, Recognizing also that the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms,46 in its current form, constitutes an important first step towards the promotion of transparency in military matters, Convinced that the principle of transparency should also apply to all weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons, and to transfers of equipment and technology directly related to the development and manufacture of such weapons, as well as to high technology with military applications, Aware of the need to foster international efforts in this direction through, inter alia, the constant review of the operation of the Register with a view to its further development, Stressing the need to achieve universality of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,2 and of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction45 and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction,47 with a view to realizing the goal of the total elimination of all weapons of mass destruction, Recalling its earlier resolutions on transparency in armaments, 46 See resolution 46/36 L. 47 Resolution 2826 (XXVI), annex. /...