Draft Resolutions from the First
Committee of the General Assembly
58th Session, 2003
The First Committee of the 58th session
of the General Assembly convened on October 6, and draft resolutions
were made public on October 20th.
The following resolutions are downloadable
in PDF (requires Adobe Acrobat), and all except for the New Agenda
resolutions (L.39 and L.40) will not be available in HTML due to
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Explanations of votes are not verbatim
records of the statements delivered in the session and must be checked
against delivery.
A/C.1/58/L.3 (A/RES/58/32)
Developments in the field of information and telecommunications
in the context of international security
13 October 2003
Sponsor: Russian Federation
Voting Result in First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.5(A/RES/58/66) Report of the Conference on Disarmament
14 October 2003
Sponsor: Japan
Voting Result in First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.6 (A/RES/58/31) Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for
the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Treaty of Tlatelolco)
14 October 2003
Lead Sponsor: Brazil
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Explanation of vote: United States
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.7(A/RES/58/60) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament,
and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
14 October 2003
Sponsor: Costa Rica
Voting Result in First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.9(A/RES/58/38) Regional Disarmament
14 October 2003
Lead Sponsor: Nigeria
Voting Result in First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.11(A/RES/58/30) African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba)
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Nigeria Amendment (Statement by Spain)
Voting Result in First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Explanation of vote: European Union,
Spain, United
States
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.12(A/RES/58/40) Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Nigeria
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.13(A/RES/58/61) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament
in Africa
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Nigeria
Voting Result in First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.14 Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free-zone in Central
Asia
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Uzbekistan
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.15/Rev.1(A/RES/58/41) Enhancing the contribution of the First Committee to the
maintenance of international peace and security
15 October 2003
Lead Sponsor: United States of America
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Explanation of Vote: European Union,
Iran, Brazil
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.16/Rev.1(A/RES/58/42) National legislation on transfer of arms, military equipment
and dual-use goods and technology
15 October 2003
Sponsor: The Netherlands
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.19: WITHDRAWN Conference of States parties and signatories to treaties
by which nuclear-weapon-free zones have been established
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Mexico
A/C.1/58/L.20 (A/RES/58/67)
Report of the Disarmament Commission
15 October 2003
Lead Sponsor: Italy
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Explanation of vote: Canada,
United States Statement by Italy
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.21(A/RES/58/62) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament
in Asia and the Pacific
15 October 2003
Lead Sponsor: Myanmar
Voting Result in First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.22(A/RES/58/34) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region
of the Middle East
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Egypt
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.25/Rev.1: Draft Decision-WITHDRAWN Convening of the fourth special session of the General
Assembly devoted to disarmament
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Malaysia
A/C.1/58/L.28
(A/RES/58/63) United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Malaysia
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.30: Draft
Decision
Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening
of International Security
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Malaysia
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.32(A/RES/58/28)
Objective information on military matters, including transparency
of military expenditures
15 October 2003
Lead Sponsor: Germany
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.35(A/RES/58/48) Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of
mass destruction
15 October 2003
Lead Sponsor: India
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Explanation of vote: Israel,
United States
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.37 (A/RES/58/72)
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and
Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and
on Their Destruction
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Hungary
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Explanation of vote: New Zealand
(on behalf of Canada and NZ)
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.42 (A/RES/58/70) Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean
region
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Algeria
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.43 (A/RES/58/53) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of
the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel
Mines and on Their Destruction
15 October 2003
Lead sponsor: Thailand View Voting Result in
First Committee: yes-143; no-0; abstain-19;
Explanation of vote: Iran Voting Result in
the General Assembly: yes-153; no-0; abstain-23
A/C.1/58/L.46/Rev.1(A/RES/58/55) Promotion at the regional level in the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe of the United Nations programme
of action on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in
all its aspects
15 October 2003
Co-Sponsors
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Explanation of Vote: Azerbaijan,
Canada
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.48
Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United
Nations in the field of verification
15 October 2003
Sponsor: Canada
Voting Result in First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.49 (A/RES/58/57)
The Conference on Disarmament decision (CD/1547) of 11 August 1998
to establish, under item 1 of its agenda entitled "Cessation
of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament", an ad hoc
committee to negotiate, on the basis of the report of the Special
Coordinator (CD/1299) and the mandate contained therein, a non-discriminatory,
multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty
banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or
other nuclear explosive devices
15 October 2003
Lead Sponsor: Japan
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Explanation of vote: United States
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.50 (A/RES/58/69)
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious
or to Have Indiscriminate Effects
15 October 2003
Co-Sponsors
Voting Result in First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.51 (A/RES/58/58)
Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms
and collecting them
15 October 2003
Co-Sponsors
Voting Result in First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.54 (A/RES/58/65)
Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United
Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central
Africa
20 October 2003
Co-Sponsors
Voting Result in the First Committee: Adopted without a vote
Voting Result in the General Assembly: Adopted without a vote
A/C.1/58/L.55(A/RES/58/60) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and
Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
23 October 2003
Submitted by Secretary General
A/C.1/58/L.57 (A/RES/58/62)
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia
and the Pacific
23 October 2003
Submitted by Secretary-General
A/C.1/58/L.58 (A/RES/58/30) amendment to draft resolution A/C.1/58/L.11
African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba)
23 October 2003
Sponsor: Spain
A/C.1/58/L.59 (A/RES/58/63) United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament
27 October 2003
Submitted by Secretary-General
