Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 December 2009  [on the report of the First Committee (A/64/391)]  64/31. Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at  the 1995 and 2000 Review Conferences of the Parties to the  Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons        The General Assembly,    Recalling its various resolutions in the field of nuclear disarmament, including  its most recent, resolutions 62/24 of 5 December 2007, and 63/46, 63/49 and 63/75  of 2 December 2008,    Bearing in mind its resolution 2373 (XXII) of 12 June 1968, the annex to  which contains the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 0F1    Noting the provisions of article VIII, paragraph 3, of the Treaty regarding the  convening of review conferences at five-year intervals,    Recalling its resolution 50/70 Q of 12 December 1995, in which the General  Assembly noted that the States parties to the Treaty affirmed the need to continue to  move with determination towards the full realization and effective implementation  of the provisions of the Treaty, and accordingly adopted a set of principles and  objectives,    Recalling also that, on 11 May 1995, the 1995 Review and Extension  Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons  adopted three decisions on strengthening the review process for the Treaty,  principles and objectives for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and  extension of the Treaty, 1F2    Reaffirming the resolution on the Middle East adopted on 11 May 1995 by the  1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty,2 in which the  Conference reaffirmed the importance of the early realization of universal adherence  to the Treaty and placement of nuclear facilities under full-scope International  Atomic Energy Agency safeguards,  _______________  1 See also United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.  2 See 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of  Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I) and Corr.2), annex.   A/RES/64/31  2    Reaffirming also its resolution 55/33 D of 20 November 2000, in which the  General Assembly welcomed the adoption by consensus on 19 May 2000 of the  Final Document of the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the  Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 2F 3 including, in particular, the documents  entitled “Review of the operation of the Treaty, taking into account the decisions  and the resolution adopted by the 1995 Review and Extension Conference” and  “Improving the effectiveness of the strengthened review process for the Treaty”,3F4    Taking into consideration the unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon  States, in the Final Document of the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the  Treaty, to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals leading to  nuclear disarmament, to which all States parties to the Treaty are committed under  article VI of the Treaty,    Gravely concerned over the failure of the 2005 Review Conference of the  Parties to the Treaty to reach any substantive agreement on the follow-up to the  nuclear disarmament obligations,     Noting with satisfaction that the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Review  Conference of the Parties to the Treaty finalized the procedural arrangements for the  Review Conference,    1.  Determines to pursue practical steps for systematic and progressive efforts  to implement article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons1  and paragraphs 3 and 4 (c) of the decision on principles and objectives for nuclear  non-proliferation and disarmament of the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of  the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;2    2.  Calls for practical steps, as agreed to at the 2000 Review Conference of  the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, to be taken by  all nuclear-weapon States, which would lead to nuclear disarmament in a way that  promotes international stability and, based on the principle of undiminished security  for all:    (a)  Further efforts to be made by the nuclear-weapon States to reduce their  nuclear arsenals unilaterally;    (b)  Increased transparency by the nuclear-weapon States with regard to  nuclear weapons capabilities and the implementation of agreements pursuant to  article VI of the Treaty and as a voluntary confidence-building measure to support  further progress in nuclear disarmament;    (c)  The further reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons, based on  unilateral initiatives and as an integral part of the nuclear arms reduction and  disarmament process;    (d)  Concrete agreed measures to reduce further the operational status of  nuclear weapons systems;    (e)  A diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies so as to  minimize the risk that these weapons will ever be used and to facilitate the process of  their total elimination;  _______________  3 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final  Document, vols. I–III (NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts I-IV)).  4 Ibid., vol. I (NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts I and II)), part I.   A/RES/64/31  3    (f)  The engagement, as soon as appropriate, of all the nuclear-weapon States  in the process leading to the total elimination of their nuclear weapons;    3.  Notes that the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty agreed  that legally binding security assurances by the five nuclear-weapon States to the  non-nuclear-weapon  States  parties  to  the  Treaty  strengthen  the  nuclear  non-proliferation regime;    4.  Urges the States parties to the Treaty to follow up on the implementation  of the nuclear disarmament obligations under the Treaty agreed to at the 1995 and  2000 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty within the framework of  Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty and their Preparatory Committees;    5.  Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-sixth session the  item entitled “Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995  and 2000 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of  Nuclear Weapons”.