Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 2830 (Xxvi) Concerning the Signature and Ratification of Additional Protocol Ii of the Treaty of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

A/RES/2935(XXVII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1973.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Latin America Nuclear Weapons Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

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6 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms its conviction that, for the maximum effectiveness of any treaty establishing a nuclearweapon-free zone, the co-operation of the nuclearweapon States is necessary and that such co-operation should take the form of commitments likewise undertaken in a formal international instrument which is legally binding, such as a treaty, convention or protocol;

Recalls with particular satisfaction that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America became parties to Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prnhihition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treatv of Tiatelolco) in 1969 and 1971, respectively;

Welcomes also with satisfaction, as a preliminary measure, the solemn decl:irntion made by the Government of the People's Republic of China on 14 :, 1 Statern~nt hy the Minister for Forci~n Affairs of '.he People's Republic of China. See A/C.1/1028.

November 1972, by which it entered into obligations similar to those implicit in Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for States parties thereto, and invites the Government of China to try to find procedures that will enable it to accede to the Protocol as soon as possible;

Deplores that the other two nuclear-weapon States have not yet heeded the urgent appeals which the General Assembly has made in four different resolutions and urges them once again to sign and ratify without further delay Additional Protocol II of the Treaty;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its twenty-eighth session an item entitled "Implementation of General Assembly resolution 2935 (XXVII) concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco)";

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the present resolution to the nuclear-weapon States and to inform the General Assembly at its twenty-eighth session of any measure adopted by them in order to implement it.

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