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General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/50/245
17 September 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 65
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/50/L.78 and Add.1)]
50/245. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 50/65 of 12 December 1995, in which the
Assembly declared its readiness to resume consideration of the item
"Comprehensive test-ban treaty", as necessary, before its fifty-first session
in order to endorse the text of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty,
1. Adopts the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, as contained in
document A/50/1027;
2. Requests the Secretary-General, as depositary of the Treaty, to
open it for signature, at United Nations Headquarters, at the earliest
possible date;
3. Calls upon all States to sign and, thereafter, according to their
respective constitutional processes, to become parties to the Treaty at the
earliest possible date;
4. Also requests the Secretary-General, as depositary of the Treaty,
to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session on the status of
signature and ratifications of the Treaty.
125th plenary meeting
10 September 1996
96-77407
