United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 1996 / UNODA.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs.

Series:

United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, 2412-1193 ; no.21.

United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, 2412-1193 ; no.21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disarmament.

Local Subjects:

Disarmament.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 1997.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The volume 21 compiles the disarmament resolutions and decisions of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly, the voting patterns in the General Assembly and the First Committee report and dates of their adoption. It summarizes developments and trends in 1996 on key issues of multilateral consideration at the international and regional levels. Reviews the activity of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly, the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission. Contains a timeline that highlights events in multilateral disarmament in 1996.

Contents:

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban treaty

Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament

Chemical and biological weapons

Conventional weapons: Global and regional approaches

Convention on certain conventional weapons and other issues

Other issues and approaches

Institutional aspects

Studies, information and training

Status of multilateral arms regulation and disarmament agreements

Final declaration of the fourth review conference of the parties to the convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction

Final declaration of the review conference of the states parties to the convention on prohibitions or retrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects

Text of disarmament resolutions and decisions

Table of resolutions and decisions on disarmament questions

Voting patterns of resolutions and decisions on disarmament adopted by the General Assembly in 1996

Abbreviations and acronyms.

ISBN:

9789210580137

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.