IMMEDIATE

Security 220.

The Security Council, having accepted the recommendations
contained in the General Assembly resolution of December 14th,
1946, on the principles governing the general regulation and
reduction of armaments, and recognising that the implementation of
the General Assembly's decision on this question is one of the
most urgent and most important tasks facing the Security Council-
resolves to give effect forthwith to these recommendations and to
that end.

1. To establish Disarmament Commission composed of one
representative of each of the members of the Security Council to
work out proposals-
(A) for the general regulation and reduction of armaments and
armed forces,
(B) for practical and effective safeguards in connection with the
general regulation and reduction of armaments and to submit such
proposals to the Security Council.

2. To request the Atomic Energy Commission to proceed with its
work under the General Assembly resolution of 24th January, 1946,
by which the Commission was created, and having in view the
preparation 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 and in the future to mass destruction
and the control of atomic energy to the extent necessary to ensure
its use only for peaceful purposes.

3. To request the Military Staff Committee to prepare for the
Security Council proposals regarding the military requirements of
the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace
and security and the inauguration of the system of special
agreements laid down in Article 43.

4. To request the Military Staff Committee to advise on the
information to be required from members of the United Nations to
give effect to the recommendations accepted by the Security
Council in respect to the withdrawal and reduction of National
armed forces.

5. The Security Council charges the Disarmament Commission, the
Atomic Energy Commission and the Military Staff Committee to
regard these appointed tasks as of the highest urgency and, in
order to facilitate this work, the Security Council also resolves
to expedite the consideration by the Council of the first report
of the Atomic Energy Commission.