Final Text of the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (the Pelindaba Treaty)

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 78 Final text of a treaty on an African nuclear-weapon-free zone, published in 1996.

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12 subjects

Africa Conferences Disarmament Agreements Financial Assistance Groups of Experts International Security Nuclear Energy Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Weapon States Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Technical Cooperation

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Welcomes with special satisfaction the adoption by the African leaders of the final text of the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Treaty (the Pelindaba Treaty), 5/ which constitutes an event of historic significance in the efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and to promote international peace and security and which, at the same time, recognizes the right of African countries to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in order to accelerate the economic and social development of their peoples;

Invites the African States to sign and ratify the Pelindaba Treaty as soon as possible;

Calls upon all States to respect the continent of Africa as a nuclear-weapon-free zone;

Calls upon the States contemplated in Protocol III to the Pelindaba Treaty to take all necessary measures to ensure the speedy application of the Treaty to territories for which they are, de jure or de facto, internationally responsible and which lie within the limits of the geographical zone established in the Treaty;

Calls upon the nuclear-weapon States to bring the necessary support to the Pelindaba Treaty by signing the Protocols that concern them as soon as the Treaty becomes available for signature;

Expresses its profound gratitude to the Secretary-General for the diligence with which he has rendered effective technical advice and financial assistance to the Organization of African Unity towards the six meetings of the Group of Experts to Prepare a Draft Treaty on an African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, set up jointly by the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations;

Also expresses its gratitude to the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency for the diligence with which they assisted the Group of Experts to Prepare a Draft Treaty on an African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone;

Requests the Secretary-General, within existing resources, to extend assistance to the African States in 1996 in order to achieve the aims of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first session an item entitled "African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty".

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