First Committee of UN General Assembly unanimously supports resolution, initiated by Uzbekistan
03/11/2014 17:04
First Committee of UN General Assembly unanimously supports resolution, initiated by Uzbekistan
03/11/2014 17:04
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The First Committee of the UN General Assembly considered a draft resolution “Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia” at its session on 29 October 2014 and without voting approved it based on consensus.
About 60 countries, including nuclear powers – Great Britain, China, Russia, United States and France, became co-author of the resolution, Jahon news agency reported.
The resolution says that the UN General Assembly would welcome that Treaty’s entry into force on 21 March 2009.
The agency said that initiative of Uzbekistan, announced by the Uzbek President Islam Karimov at the 48th session of the UN General Assembly on 28 September 1993, was supported.
Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia is a unique as it became first such zone in northern hemisphere. It also became the first multilateral agreement in security sphere, in which all five Central Asian states are taking part.
According to the agreement, the signees undertook obligation not to hold researches, produce, stock or purchase, possesses any nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive devices in any form. Five nuclear powers guarantee not to use nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive or threat to use them against any member state of the treaty.
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