The UN General Assembly Adopts Belarus-Initiated WMD Resolution

 On October, 27 the UN GA First Committee on Disarmament and International Security adopted the Belarus-initiated resolution “Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament”. The resolution was supported by 173 states.

During the speech before the voting procedure the Belarusian delegation highlighted that the issue of banning development and manufacture of new types of the WMD has been in the focus of the international community for 40 years already. The present edition of the resolution has a purely preventive character. In fact Belarus suggested the international community a ready-made mechanism of reacting to any information on the development of new types of the WMD.
The co-authors of the resolution are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Venezuela, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Nicaragua, Poland, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

It is expected that the UN General Assembly will review the resolution “Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament” in December 2011.

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