Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005  [on the report of the First Committee (A/60/463)]  60/72.  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 59/77, 59/83 and 59/102 of 3 December 2004,    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,1    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,2    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/60/72  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, 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”,4    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,    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;2    2.  Calls for practical steps, as agreed to at the 2000 Review Conference of  the Parties to the Treaty, to be taken by all nuclear-weapon States that would lead to  nuclear disarmament in a way that promotes international stability and, based upon  the principle of undiminished security for all, for:    (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;    (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  _______________  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/60/72  3  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 the  2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty and its preparatory committee;    5.  Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session  an 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”.