u international seismic monitoring network with a view to the further development of its potentiaI to monitor and verify compliance with a comprehensive nuclear-teat-ban treaty8 (b) to take into aCCOUnt:r in this context, the progress achieved by the &&J&G Group of Scientific Experts to Consider International Co-operative Measures to Detect and Identify Seismic Events, including work on the routine exchange and use of wave-form data, and other relevant initiatives or experiments by individual States and groups of States) (c) to encourage the widest possible participation by States in the technical test that would take place in 1990 concerning the global exchange and analysis of seismic data; (dl to initiate detailed investigation of other measures to monitor and verify compliance with such a treaty, including an international network to monitor atmospheric radioactivity; called upon the Conference on Disarmament to report to the Assembly at its forty-fifth session on the progress made; and decided to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-fifth session the item entitled “Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty” (resolution 441107). Document: Report of the Conference on Disarmamunt, Supplement No. 27 (A/45/27). . 51. eetablishment of a -8one_in_then of the M&UsJf& This item was included in the agenda of the twenty-ninth session of the . General Assembly, in 19.14, at the request of Iran, later joined by Egypt (A/9693 and Add.l-3). At that session, the Assembly commended the idea of the establisnment of a nuclear-weapon-free xone in the region of the Middle East; considered that it was indispensable that all parties concerned in the area should proclaim .their intention to refrain from producing, testing, obtaining, acquiring or in aay.other way possessing nuclear weapons; called upon the parties concerned in the area to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (resolution 2373 (XXII), aanex): and requested the Secretary-General to ascertain 
**Analysis**
This text appears to be discussing international efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and to establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East. It mentions the Conference on Disarmament, the United Nations General Assembly, and the establishment of international networks and treaties to monitor and verify compliance with nuclear disarmament agreements. The text does not appear to be related to economic development, natural resources, or human activities such as agriculture, forestry, fishing, industry, transport, communication, or education.

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