The Russian foreign minister also said he hoped the resolution would provide momentum to convene a conference aimed at purging the Middle East of all such unconventional weapons.
In the shorter term, 165 House members in both parties have sponsored a Congressional resolution for the House and Senate to convene a one-day joint session in New York City next year to underscore "the nation's solidarity with New Yorkers".
Britain voted for the resolution, but it still plans to convene a meeting of the heads of governments of Commonwealth nations in Colombo this November, instead of shifting the location as a symbolic protest, as rights activists have beseeched it to do.
The Saudi resolution includes a ritual call to convene the long-delayed Geneva conference on ending the war, although the Russians and others see the Saudis as actively undermining the proposed peace talks.
When the Senate finally passed its budget resolution in March, Republicans were suddenly reluctant to convene a conference committee, even though without one, there can be no formal federal budget for the fifth year in a row.
A resolution sponsored by Austria, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, Nigeria and South Africa calls for the UN to convene a formal negotiating conference in 2017 to conclude a new treaty that prohibits the possession of nuclear weapons.
After approving the list of resolutions, delegates created a seven-member central committee to convene future meetings.
Ms. Donahoe dismissed suggestions that the resolution posed an obstacle to efforts by the United States and Russia to convene the peace conference on Syria.
6.06pm BST Carney is asked, is it true that the president has no plans to call on Congress to convene to vote on a war resolution before any strike on Syria?
Hollande said he had asked the UN Security Council to convene as soon as possible to release a joint resolution the need to destroy IS.
