Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2016  [on the report of the First Committee (A/71/450)]   71/67.  Nuclear disarmament verification        The General Assembly,    Recalling the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General  Assembly, the first special session devoted to disarmament, 1  in particular the  paragraphs relevant to verification, and the roles and respective mandates of the  disarmament machinery bodies established therein,    Recalling also the decisions taken and commitments made by States parties at  the 1995 Review and Extension Conference 2 and the 2000 3 and 2010 4 Review  Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear  Weapons related to nuclear disarmament verification,    Reaffirming the shared commitment to further progress in nuclear disarmament  and non-proliferation,    Reiterating its deep concern at the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of  any use of nuclear weapons, and reaffirming the need for all States at all times to  comply with applicable international law, including international humanitarian law,    Recalling the unequivocal undertaking of the nuclear-weapon States to  accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals leading to nuclear  disarmament, to which all States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of  Nuclear Weapons5 are committed under article VI thereof,    Recalling also that significant steps by all the nuclear-weapon States leading  to nuclear disarmament should promote international stability, peace and security,  and be based on the principle of increased and undiminished security for all,   _______________  1 Resolution S-10/2.  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.  3 See 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,  Final Document, vol. I (NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts I and II)).  4 See 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,  Final Document, vol. I (NPT/CONF.2010/50 (Vol. I)), part I.  5 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.   A/RES/71/67  Nuclear disarmament verification   2/3    Recalling further that all States parties to the Treaty commit to apply the  principles of irreversibility, verifiability and transparency in relation to the  implementation of their treaty obligations,    Convinced that, while verification is not an aim in itself, further development  of the multilateral nuclear disarmament verification capabilities will be required to  provide assurance of compliance with multilateral nuclear disarmament agreements  for the achievement and maintenance of a world without nuclear weapons,    Convinced also that, irrespective of different positions on the means to achieve  the total elimination of nuclear weapons, identifying and developing practical and  effective measures of nuclear disarmament verification and monitoring will foster  confidence and facilitate efforts to achieve and maintain a world without nuclear  weapons,    Recalling its resolution 62/21 of 5 December 2007 on verification in all its  aspects, including the role of the United Nations in the field of verification, in which  it took note of the report of the Panel of Government Experts on verification in all  its aspects, including the role of the United Nations in the field of verification, 6 as  well as the reports of the Secretary-General of 1990 and 1995,7 and recalling also  the report of the Disarmament Commission outlining general principles elaborated  upon or added to those stated in the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of  the General Assembly,8    Recalling also that the International Atomic Energy Agency, in carrying out its  functions, shall conduct its activities in accordance with the purposes and principles  of the United Nations to promote peace and international cooperation, and in  conformity with policies of the United Nations furthering the establishment of  safeguarded worldwide disarmament and with any international agreements entered  into pursuant to such policies,    Mindful of the role of verification in existing bilateral and multilateral  disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control agreements, and the importance of  making use of existing capabilities of relevant international organizations and  experiences and lessons learned, as appropriate,     Mindful also that, given the challenges associated with verifying nuclear  disarmament, continuous capacity-building and technical development are critical to  bridging any shortcomings and establishing effective multilateral nuclear  disarmament verification,    Noting initiatives and partnerships among Member States, such as the initiative  of Norway and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the  International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification, to enable active  collaboration between States, in conformity with their international obligations, in  developing practical methods that could contribute to the verification of irreversible  dismantlement of nuclear weapons,     Noting also the contribution of representatives of civil society from the  non-governmental, academic and research communities,  _______________  6 See A/61/1028.  7 A/45/372 and Corr.1 and A/50/377 and Corr.1.  8 A/51/182/Rev.1.   Nuclear disarmament verification  A/RES/71/67   3/3    1.  Calls for further efforts to reduce and eliminate all types of nuclear  weapons, and reaffirms the unequivocal undertaking of the nuclear-weapon States to  accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals;    2.  Reaffirms that disarmament and arms limitation agreements should  provide for adequate measures of verification satisfactory to all parties concerned in  order to create the necessary confidence and ensure that they are being observed by  all parties, and notes the development of broader partnerships and cooperative  verification arrangements;     3.  Calls upon all States to work together to identify and develop practical  and effective disarmament verification measures facilitating the objective of  achieving and maintaining a world without nuclear weapons through, inter alia,  advancing, understanding and addressing technical challenges of nuclear  disarmament verification and monitoring, including tools, solutions and methods  and capacity-building;    4.  Calls for the development and strengthening of practical and effective  nuclear disarmament verification measures, which will build confidence and  facilitate the advancement of nuclear disarmament efforts, and affirms in this  context the importance of credible verification in providing assurance of compliance  with nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation obligations and commitments;     5.  Encourages the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament  Commission to substantively address nuclear disarmament verification;    6.  Requests the Secretary-General to seek the views of Member States on  the development and strengthening of practical and effective nuclear disarmament  verification measures and on the importance of such measures in achieving and  maintaining a world without nuclear weapons, and to report back to the General  Assembly at its seventy-second session;    7.  Also requests the Secretary-General to establish a group of governmental  experts of up to 25 participants on the basis of equitable geographical distribution to  consider the role of verification in advancing nuclear disarmament, taking into  account the aforementioned report, which will meet in Geneva in 2018 and 2019 for  a total of three sessions of five days each;    8.  Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second  session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, a sub-item  entitled “Nuclear disarmament verification”.