Resolution 36/87
(November 13, 1981)
The General Assembly
Recalling, its resolutions 3263 (XXIX) of 9
December 1974, 3474 (XXX) of 11 December 1975, 31/71 of 10 December
1976, 32/82 of 12 December 1977, 33/64 of 14 December 1978, 34/77 of
11 December 1979 and 35/147 of 12 December 1980 on the establishment
of a nuclear-weapon free zone in the region of the Middle East,
1. Requests the Secretary-General to transmit
General Assembly resolution 35 / 147 to the Assembly at its second
special session devoted to disarmament;
2. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of
its thirty-seventh session the item entitled "Establishment of a
nuclear-weapon free zone in the region of the Middle East".
B
The General Assembly
Recalling its resolutions
concerning the establishment of a nuclear-weapon free zone in the
region of the Middle East,
Recalling also the
recommendations in the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of
the General Assembly for the establishment of such a zone in the
Middle East consistent with paragraph 60 to 63, in particular
paragraph 63(d) thereof,
Recalling further Security
Council resolution 487 (1981) of 19 June 1981,
Taking into consideration
the resolution adopted on 12 June 1981 by the Board of Governors of
the International Atomic Energy Agency and resolution GC(XXV)/RES/381
adopted on 26 September 1981 by the General Conference of the Agency,
Recalling further the report
of the Secretary-General concerning Israeli nuclear armament,
Realizing that adherence to
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 51 by all
Parties of the region will be conducive to a speedy establishment of
a nuclear weapon-free zone,
Deeply concerned that the
future of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in
the region has been gravely endangered by the attack carried out by
Israel, which is not a party to the Treaty, on the nuclear
installation of Iraq, which is a party to that Treaty,
I . Considers that the
Israeli military attack on the Iraq nuclear installations adversely
affects the prospects of the establishment of a nuclear weapon-free
zone in the region of the Middle East;
2. Declares that it is
imperative, in this respect, that Israel place forthwith all its
nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency
safeguards;
3. Requests the
Secretary-General to transmit the present resolution to the General
Assembly at its second special session devoted to disarmament.
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