The United Nations Commission on Conventional Armaments was founded as a result of the founding
United Nations
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treaty in 1946. The goal of the commission was to find ways to reduce the size of non-nuclear armaments around the world. The Commission was formally established by the
Security Council Resolution on 13 February 1947. The
five permanent members of the
United Nation Security Council
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could not agree on how to achieve this aim and so the first report of the Commission in 1949 made no substantial recommendations.
In 1950, the
Soviet Union
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refused to sit with the representatives of the "Kuomintang group" (i.e. the non-communist Chinese representatives) on the Commission. This brought an effective end to the Commission's discussion. It was formally dissolved in 1952.
A/RES/502(VI) 11 Jan. 1952 ''Regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments; international control of atomic energy''
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References
Links
Resolution 300 of the Fourth Session of the United NationsReport from the ''Disarmament Times''
See also
*Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW or CCWC), concluded at Geneva on October 10, 1980, and entered into force in December 1983, seeks to prohibit or restrict the use of certain conventional weapons which are consid ...
*United Nations Security Council Resolution 77
United Nations Security Council Resolution 77, adopted on 11 October 1949, having received and examined the second progress report of the Commission for Conventional Armaments, the Council directed the Secretary-General to transmit the report, al ...
*United Nations Disarmament Commission
The United Nations Disarmament Commission (UNDC) is a United Nations commission under the United Nations General Assembly which primarily deals with issues relating to Disarmament.
History
The United Nations Disarmament Commission was first estab ...
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