41. At its thirty-seventh session, in 1982, the General Assenbly adopted threeresolutions on the subject. In its resolution 371100 C of 13 December Lgg2,entitled "convention on the prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons", initiatedby India and co-sponsored by several other non-aligned countries, the Assemblyreaffirned that the use of nuclear rdeapons would be a violation of t,he Charter ofthe United Nations and a crime against huma'nity, and reguested the Committee onDisarmament to undertake "on a priority basis" negotiations with a vieh, toachieving agreement on an international convention prohibiting the use or threat ofuse of nuclear weapons under any circumstances, taking as a basis t.he text. of adraft convention which etas annexed to the resolution. The vote on the resolution.was 117 (including China and the Union of soviet Socialist Republics) Eo 17(including France, the United Kingdom and the United States and other westerncountries), with I abstentions. 42. rn General Assembly resolutLon 37/78 r of 9 December Lg82, sponsored bynon-aligned and sone other States and introduced by Argentina, the Comrnittee onDisarmament was requested to undertake "as a matEer of highest priority,'negotiations with a view to achieving agreement, on appropriate and practicalmeasures for the prevention of nuclear rdar. rn the fourth preambular paragraph ofthat resoluEion, the Assembly recalled that in the provisions of the Final oocumentof its tenth special session it had been agreed by consensus thaE all states should^/40/ 4e8 EngI ish Page 14 actively participate in efforts to bring about agreement on a code of peaceful conduc! of naEions in international affairsr which would preclude Ehe use or threat of use of nuclear rdeapons. The vote on the resolution was 130 to none, wit,h 17 abstenEions (9lestern States) . 43. In General Assembly resolutLon 37/78 J of the same daEe, entitled "Non-use of nuclear neapons and prevent.ion of nuclear r.rar", which was sponsored by Cuba, the German Democratic Republic, Romania and Viet Nam, the Assembly considered Ehat "the solemn declarations by lwo nuclear-weapon States (China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) made or reiterated at the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly, the second special session devoted to disarnament, concerningtheir respective obliEations not to be the first to use nuclear weapons" represented an inportant approach to decrease the danger of nucLear ttar, and
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