Resolution 37/18
(November 16, 1982)
The General Assembly,
Having considered the item entitled "Armed Israeli aggression
against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the
established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear
energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace
and security",
Recalling the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and
the General Assembly,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General,
Taking note also of the relevant resolution of the International
Atomic Energy Agency and the Commission on Human Rights,
Viewing with deep concern Israel's refusal to comply with those
resolutions, particularly Security Council resolution 487 (1981) of 19 June
1981,
Gravely alarmed by the dangerous escalation of Israel's acts of
aggression in the region,
Gravely concerned that Israel continues to maintain its threats
to repeat such attacks against nuclear installations,
Reiterating its alarm over the information and evidence regarding
the acquisition and development of nuclear weapons by Israel,
Recalling the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the
Establishment of a New International Economic Order, the Charter of
Economic Rights and Duties of States and the Declaration on the Use of
Scientific and Technological Progress in the Interests of Peace and for the
Benefit of Mankind, Affirming the need to ensure against the
repetition of such an attack on nuclear facilities by Israel or any other
State,
1. Condemns Israel's refusal to implement resolution 487 (1981),
unanimously adopted by the Security Council;
2. Strongly condemns Israel for the escalation of its acts of
aggression in the region;
3. Condemns Israel's threats to repeat such attacks, which would
gravely endanger international peace and security;
4. Demands that Israel withdraw forthwith its officially
declared threat to repeat its armed attack against nuclear facilities;
5. Considers the Israeli act of aggression to be a violation and
a denial of the inalienable sovereign right of States to scientific and
technological progress for achieving social and economic development and
raising the standards of peoples and the dignity of the human person, as
well as a violation and a denial of inalienable human rights and the
sovereign right of States to scientific and technological development;
6. Requests the Security Council to consider the necessary
measures to deter Israel from repeating such an attack on nuclear
facilities;
7. Calls for the continuation of the consideration, at the
international level, of legal measures to prohibit armed attacks against
nuclear facilities, and threats thereof as a contribution to promoting and
ensuring the safe development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes;
8. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare, with the assistance
of a group of experts, a comprehensive study on the consequences of the
Israelis armed attack against the Iraqi nuclear installations devoted to
peaceful purposes, and to submit that study to the General Assembly at its
thirty-eighth session;
9. Further requests the Secretary-General to report to the
General Assembly at its thirty-eighth session on the implementation of the
present resolution;
10. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its
thirty-eighth session the item entitled "Armed Israeli aggression
against Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the
established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear
energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace
and security."
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