Assembly 401. Disarmament.

The following is the text of the Disarmament Resolution as
reported to the Sub-Committee by the Drafting Group. [1]

1. With a view to strengthening international peace and security
in conformity with the purposes and principles of the United
Nations, the General Assembly recognises the necessity of an early
general regulation and reduction of armaments and armed forces.

Accordingly the General Assembly recommends that the Security
Council give prompt consideration to formulating the practical
measures, according to their priority, which are essential to
provide for the general regulation and reduction of armaments and
forces and to assure that such regulation and reduction of
armaments and forces will be generally observed by all
participants and not unilaterally by only some of the
participants. The plans formulated by the Security Council shall
be submitted to the States Members for ratification in accordance
with Article 26 of the Charter.

2. As an essential step towards the urgent objective of
eliminating from national armaments atomic and all other major
weapons adaptable to mass destruction, and the early establishment
of international control of atomic energy and other modern
scientific discoveries and technical developments to ensure their
use only for peaceful purposes, the General Assembly urges the
expeditious fulfilment by the Atomic Energy Commission of its
terms of reference as set forth in section 5 of the General
Assembly resolution of January 24th, 1946. [2] In order to ensure
that the general prohibition, regulation and reduction of
armaments are directed towards the major weapons of modern warfare
and not merely towards the minor weapons, the General Assembly
recommends that the Security Council expedite consideration of the
reports which the Atomic Energy Commission will make to the
Security Council and that it facilitate the work of that
Commission, and also that the Security Council expedite
consideration of a draft convention or conventions for the
creation of an International system of control and inspection,
these conventions to include the prohibition of atomic and all
other major weapons adaptable now or in the future to mass
destruction.

3. The General Assembly further recognises that essential to the
general regulation and reduction of armaments is the provision of
practical and effective safeguards by way of inspection and other
means to protect complying States against the hazards of
violations and evasions. Accordingly the General Assembly
recommends to the Security Council that it give prompt
consideration to the working out of proposals to provide such
practical and effective safeguards in connection with the control
of atomic energy and other limitation or regulation of armaments.

To ensure the adoption of measures for the reduction of armaments
and armed forces and prohibition of the use of atomic energy for
military purposes and of other major weapons adaptable now or in
the future for mass destruction, there shall be established within
the framework of the Security Council, which bears the main
responsibility for peace and security, an international system, as
mentioned at the end of paragraph 2, operating through special
organs, which organs shall derive their powers and status from the
convention or conventions under which they are established.

4. The General Assembly, regarding the problem of security as
closely connected with that of disarmament, recommends the
Security Council to accelerate as much as possible the placing at
its disposal of the armed forces mentioned in Article 43 of the
Charter. It recommends the Governments to undertake the
progressive and balanced withdrawal, taking account of the needs
of occupation, of their forces stationed in ex-enemy territories,
and the withdrawal without delay of forces stationed in the
territories of member states without their consent freely and
publicly expressed in treaties or agreements consistent with the
Charter and not contradicting international agreements. It further
recommends a corresponding reduction of national armed forces, and
a general progressive and balanced reduction of these national
armed forces.

5. The General Assembly calls upon the Governments of all States
to render every possible assistance to the Security Council and
the Atomic Energy Commission in order to promote the establishment
of international peace and collective security with the least
diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic
resources.