Resolution adopted by the General Assembly  on 4 December 2017          [on the report of the First Committee (A/72/403)]        72/23. Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types  of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such  weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament        The General Assembly,    Recalling its previous resolutions on the prohibition of the development and  manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such  weapons,    Recalling also its resolutions 51/37 of 10 December 1996, 54/44 of  1 December 1999, 57/50 of 22 November 2002, 60/46 of 8 December 2005, 63/36  of 2 December 2008, 66/21 of 2 December 2011 and 69/27 of 2 December 2014  relating to the prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of  weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons,    Recalling further paragraph 77 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special  Session of the General Assembly,1    Determined to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass  destruction that have characteristics comparable in destructive effect to those of  weapons of mass destruction identified in the definition of weapons of mass  destruction adopted by the United Nations in 1948,2    Noting with appreciation the discussions which have been held in the  Conference on Disarmament under the item entitled “New types of weapons of mass  destruction and new systems of such weapons; radiological weapons”, 3  __________________    1 Resolution S-10/2.    2 The definition was adopted by the Commission for Conventional Armaments (see S/C.3/32/Rev.1  and S/C.3/32/Rev.1/Corr.1).    3 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/64/27),  chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/65/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid.,  Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/66/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Sixty-seventh Session,  Supplement No. 27 (A/67/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 27  (A/68/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/69/27), chap. III,  sect. E; ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/70/27), chap. III, sect. E; ibid., Seventy- first Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/71/27), chap. III, sect. E; and ibid., Seventy-second Session,  Supplement No. 27 (A/72/27), chap. III, sect. E.   A/RES/72/23  Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction  and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament   17-21691  2/2      Noting the desirability of keeping the matter under review, as appropriate,    1.  Reaffirms that effective measures should be taken to prevent the  emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction;    2.  Requests the Conference on Disarmament, without prejudice to further  overview of its agenda, to keep the matter under review, as appropriate, with a view  to making, when necessary, recommendations on undertaking specific negotiations  on identified types of such weapons;    3.  Calls upon all States, immediately following any recommendations of  the Conference on Disarmament, to give favourable consideration to those  recommendations;    4.  Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference on  Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this item by the General  Assembly at its seventy-second session;    5.  Requests the Conference on Disarmament to report the results of any  consideration of the matter in its annual reports to the General Assembly;    6.  Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fifth session  the item entitled “Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of  weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the  Conference on Disarmament”.