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Welcoming resolution GC(XXXIV)/RES/530 establishing a Code of Practice on the International
Transboundary Movement of Radioactive Waste, adopted on 21 September 1990 by the General
Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency at its thirty-fourth regular session,16
Welcoming also resolution GC(XXXVIII)/RES/6, adopted on 23 September 1994 by the General
Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency at its thirty-eighth regular session,17 inviting the
Board of Governors and the Director General of the Agency to commence preparations for a convention
on the safety of radioactive waste management, and noting the progress that has been made in that regard,
Taking note of the commitment by the participants at the Summit on Nuclear Safety and Security,
held in Moscow on 19 and 20 April 1996, to ban the dumping at sea of radioactive wastes,18
Considering its resolution 2602 C (XXIV) of 16 December 1969, in which it requested the
Conference of the Committee on Disarmament,19 inter alia, to consider effective methods of control
against the use of radiological methods of warfare,
Recalling resolution CM/Res.1356 (LIV) of 1991, adopted by the Council of Ministers of the
Organization of African Unity,20 on the Bamako Convention on the Ban on the Import of Hazardous
Wastes into Africa and on the Control of Their Transboundary Movements within Africa,
Aware of the potential hazards underlying any use of radioactive wastes that would constitute
radiological warfare and its implications for regional and international security, in particular for the
security of developing countries,
Recalling all its resolutions on the matter since its forty-third session in 1988, including its resolution
51/45 J of 10 December 1996,
Desirous of promoting the implementation of paragraph 76 of the Final Document of the Tenth
Special Session of the General Assembly,1 the first special session devoted to disarmament,
1. Takes note of the part of the report of the Conference on Disarmament relating to a future
convention on the prohibition of radiological weapons;21
16
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)).
17
Ibid., Thirty-eighth Regular Session, 19–23 September 1994 (GC(XXXVIII)/RES/DEC (1994)).
18
A/51/131, annex I, para. 20.
19
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.
20
See A/46/390, annex I.
21
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/53/27), chap. III.E.
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