Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 44/104 Concerning the Signature and Ratification of Additional Protocol I of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 45 Implementation of General Assembly resolution 44/104 concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol I of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco), published in 1991.

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Disarmament Agreements France Latin America Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications

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Recalling also its various resolutions concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol I of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco),

Taking into account that within the zone of application of the Treaty, to which twenty-three sovereign States are already parties, there are some territories that, in spite of not being sovereign political entities, are nevertheless in a position to receive the benefits deriving from the Treaty through its Additional Protocol I, to which the four States that de jure or de facto are internationally responsible for those territories may become parties.

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Caagidfiriflq that it is not fair that the peoples of some of those territories are deprived of such benefits without being given the opportunity to express their opinion in this connection.

Recalling further that three of the States to which Additional Protocol I is open - the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Horthern Ireland, the Kingdom of the /Netherlands and the United States of America - became parties to the Protocol in 1969, 1971 and 1981 respectively,

Deplores once again that the signature of Additional Protocol I by France, which took place on 2 March 1979, has not yet been followed by the corresponding ratification, notwithstanding the time elapsed and the pressing invitations that the General Assembly has addressed to it;

Once more urges France not to delay any further such ratification, which has been requested so many times and which appears all the more advisable, since France is the only one of the four States to which the Protocol is open that is not yet party to it;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-sixth session an item entitled "Implementation of General Assembly resolution 45/48 concerning the signature and ratification of Additional Protocol X of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)".

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