United Nations Assembly

To address the technology, waste, safety and security issues concerning nuclear energy, the UN established the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1957, a few years after U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower s famous Atoms for Peace speech before the United Nations General Assembly. 

United Nations (1987). General Assembly Resolution 42/187. December 11,1987. Report of the world commission on environment and development, http //www.un.org/docu-ments/ga/res/42/ares42-187.htm. (accessed 01.09.10). 

UNSCEAR United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiations Sources and Biological Effects, Report to the General Assembly, Annex D, United Nations, New York (1982). 

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 55/25, United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime. Annex I, Article 2, Subsection A, 8 January 2001. 

United Nations (1992) Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Annex I, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, A/CONE151/26 (Vol. I), Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, United Nations General Assembly, New York... 

Nevertheless, it was events in Kurdistan in particular which fully illustrated both the ambiguity of what was banned and the absence of verification measures under the Geneva Protocol. Only use of chemical weapons was banned, not possession. In 1972 the United Nations General Assembly had adopted the Convention of the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Biological Weapons. Chemical weapons fell outside this convention and by 1988 it became clear that a chemical weapons treaty was urgently needed to place effective constraints on the proliferation of these weapons worldwide. 

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