A/RES/53/77 Page 24 2. Requests the Conference on Disarmament, as a first step, to consider the formulation of principles that can serve as a framework for regional agreements on conventional arms control, and looks forward to a report of the Conference on this subject; 3. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels”. 79th plenary meeting 4 December 1998 Q NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE AND ADJACENT AREAS The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 51/45 B of 10 December 1996 and 52/38 N of 9 December 1997, Determined to continue to contribute to the prevention of the proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects and to the process of general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, in particular in the field of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, with a view to strengthening international peace and security, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the provisions on nuclear-weapon-free zones of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly,1 the first special session devoted to disarmament, as well as of the decision on principles and objectives for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament of the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,3 Stressing the importance of the treaties of Tlatelolco,27 Rarotonga,28 Bangkok,29 and Pelindaba,30 establishing nuclear-weapon-free zones, as well as the Antarctic Treaty,43 to, inter alia, the ultimate objective of achieving a world entirely free of nuclear weapons, and underlining also the value of enhancing cooperation among the nuclear-weapon-free zone treaty members by means of mechanisms such as joint meetings of States parties, signatories and observers to those treaties, Recalling the applicable principles and rules of international law relating to the freedom of the high seas and the rights of passage through maritime space, including those of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,44 1. Welcomes the continuing contribution that the Antarctic Treaty43 and the treaties of Tlatelolco,27 Rarotonga,28 Bangkok29 and Pelindaba30 are making towards freeing the southern hemisphere and adjacent areas covered by those treaties from nuclear weapons; 43 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 402, No. 5778. 44 Official Records of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, vol. XVII (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.84.V.3), document A/CONF.62/122. /...