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5. Requests the Secretary-General and relevant United Nations bodies to provide the necessary
assistance to Mongolia, within existing resources, to take the necessary measures mentioned in paragraph
3 above;
6. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session on the
implementation of the present resolution;
7. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fifth session an item entitled “Mongolia’s
international security and nuclear-weapon-free status”.
79th plenary meeting
4 December 1998
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SMALL ARMS
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 52/38 J of 9 December 1997,
Convinced of the need for a comprehensive approach to promote, at the global and regional levels,
the control and reduction of small arms and light weapons in a balanced and non-discriminatory manner
as a contribution to international peace and security,
Reaffirming the inherent right to individual or collective self-defence recognized in Article 51 of the
Charter of the United Nations, which implies that States also have the right to acquire arms with which
to defend themselves,
Reaffirming also the right of self-determination of all peoples, in particular peoples under colonial
or other forms of alien domination or foreign occupation, and the importance of the effective realization
of this right, as enunciated, inter alia, in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted by
the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993,24
Reaffirming further the urgent need for practical disarmament in the context of the conflicts the
United Nations is actually dealing with and of the weapons that are actually killing people in the hundreds
of thousands,
Reiterating its call upon Member States to implement the recommendations contained in the report
of the Secretary-General on small arms, which was prepared with the assistance of the Panel of
Governmental Experts on Small Arms,10 to the extent possible and where necessary in cooperation with
appropriate international and regional organizations and/or through international and regional cooperation
among police, intelligence, customs and border control services,
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