Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 3079 (Xxviii) Concerning the Signature and Ratification of Additional Protocol Ii of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1975.

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

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Recalling the stated aim of the parties to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water23 and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons24 to seek to achieve the discontinuance of aM test explosions of nuclear weapons for all time,

Taking note of the special report of the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament on the question of a treaty banning underground nuclear weapon tests,25

Believing that the continuance of nuclear weapon testing will intensify the arms race, thus increasing the danger of nuclear war,

Convinced that cessation of nuclear weapon testing would be in the supreme interest of mankind, both as a major step towards controlling the development and proliferation of nuolear weapons and to relieve the deep apprehension concerning the harmful consequences of radio-active contamination for the health of present and future generations,

Condemns all nuclear weapon tests, in whatever environment they may be conducted;

Reaffirms its deep concern at the continuance of such testing, both in the atmosphere and under ground, and at the lack of progress towards a comprehensive test ban agreement;

Calls upon all States not yet parties to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water to adhere to it forthwith;

Emphasizes once more the urgency of concluding a comprehensive test ban agreement;

Reminds the nuclear-weapon States of their special responsibility to initiate proposals to this end;

Calls upon all States to -refrain from the testing of nuclear weapons, in any environment, pending conclusion of such an agreement;

Requests the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to give the highest priority to the conclusion of a comprehensive test ban agreement and to report to the General Assembly at its thirtieth session on the progress achieved;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirtieth session the item entitled "lJrgent need for cessation of nuclear and thermonuclear tests and conclusion of a treaty designed to achieve a comprehensive test ban".

·3258 (XXIX). Implementation of General Assembly resolution 3079 (XXVIU) concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol U of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

Notes with satisfaction that Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco), which entered into force for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America in 1969 and 1971, respectively, has entered into force as well during the current year for France and the People's Republic of China, whose Governments deposited their respective instruments of ratification on 22 March and 12 June 1974;

Urges the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to sign and ratify Additional Protocol II of. the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco), as has already been done by the other four nuclear-weapon States to which the General Assembly began to address its appeals in 1967;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirtieth session an item entitled "Implementation of General Assembly resolution 3258 (XXIX) concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol II of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tiatelolco) ".

3259 (XXIX). Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace

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