Security Council resolution 1957 (2010) [on termination of the weapons of mass destruction, missile, and civil nuclear-related measures imposed by resolutions 678 (1991) and 707 (1991)]
Symbol: S/RES/1957(2010)
Date: 2010-12-15
Status: adopted
Agenda: S/65 [119] IRAQ SITUATION
Subjects: UN. Security Council (46th year : 1991) > Resolutions and decisions|Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement between the Republic of Iraq and the International Atomic Energy Agency (1972). Protocol, 2008 Oct. 9|Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (1996)|Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (1993)|Charter of the United Nations (1945). Chapter VII|WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION|SIGNATURES, ACCESSIONS, RATIFICATIONS|IRAQ|NUCLEAR WEAPON TESTS|NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS|CHEMICAL WEAPONS|INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS
Votes in favour: 15
Votes against: 0
Abstentions: 0
Voting record:
country: AUSTRIA
vote: yes
country: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
vote: yes
country: BRAZIL
vote: yes
country: CHINA
vote: yes
country: FRANCE
vote: yes
country: GABON
vote: yes
country: JAPAN
vote: yes
country: LEBANON
vote: yes
country: MEXICO
vote: yes
country: NIGERIA
vote: yes
country: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
vote: yes
country: TURKEY
vote: yes
country: UGANDA
vote: yes
country: UNITED KINGDOM
vote: yes
country: UNITED STATES
vote: yes

               United Nations                                                                   S/RES/1957 (2010)
               Security Council                                                    Distr.: General
                                                                                   15 December 2010




               Resolution 1957 (2010)
               Adopted by the Security Council at its 6450th meeting,
               on 15 December 2010

                    The Security Council,
                    Recalling its previous resolutions on the situation in Iraq,
                     Recalling the statement of its President of 26 February 2010 which welcomed
               Iraq’s progress on compliance with non-proliferation and disarmament commitments,
                     Recognizing the importance of Iraq achieving international standing equal to
               that which it held prior to the adoption of resolution 661,
                     Welcoming the letter sent by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq on
               18 January 2010 which confirms that the Government of Iraq supports the
               international non-proliferation regime and complies with disarmament treaties and
               other relevant international instruments and is committed to taking additional steps
               in this regard to comply with non-proliferation and disarmament standards, and has
               also committed to inform the Security Council, IAEA and other relevant agencies on
               progress made towards implementing those measures in accordance with the
               Government of Iraq’s constitutional and legislative procedures and in compliance
               with international norms and obligations,
                     Welcoming the 11 March 2010 letter sent by the Director General of the
               International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which notes that the Agency has been
               receiving excellent cooperation from Iraq in the implementation of its
               comprehensive safeguards agreement, and proceeding on the basis of the
               Government of Iraq’s decision to provisionally apply, as of 17 February 2010, the
               Additional Protocol to its safeguards agreement pending the Protocol’s entry into
               force,
                    Welcoming Iraq’s accession to the Convention on the Prohibition of the
               Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their
               Destruction, becoming the 186th State party on 12 February 2009,
                     Welcoming that Iraq has subscribed to the Hague Code of Conduct against
               Ballistic Missile Proliferation, becoming the 131st state to do so on 11 August 2010,
                    Welcoming that Iraq signed in 2008 the Additional Protocol to the
               Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA and that the Additional
               Protocol is currently before Parliament for approval, as is the Comprehensive

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               Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, and welcoming that Iraq has agreed to apply the
               Additional Protocol provisionally, pending ratification,
                    Reaffirming the importance of the ratification by Iraq as soon as possible of
               the Additional Protocol,
                    Acting under Chapter VII of the Chapter of the United Nations,
                    1.    Decides to terminate the weapons of mass destruction, missile, and civil
               nuclear-related measures imposed by paragraphs 8, 9, 10, 12 and 13 of resolution
               687 (1991) and paragraph 3 (f) of resolution 707 (1991); and as reaffirmed in
               subsequent relevant resolutions;
                    2.   Urges Iraq to ratify the Additional Protocol to the Comprehensive
               Safeguards Agreement and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty as soon as
               possible;
                    3.    Decides also to review in one year’s time progress made by Iraq on its
               commitment to ratify the Additional Protocol to the Comprehensive Safeguards
               Agreement and meet its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and
               requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council in this regard;
                    4.   Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.




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