The Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere and Adjacent Areas

A/RES/51/45[B]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71 General and complete disarmament, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1997–1998

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/52/38[N]

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1998	A/RES/52/38[N]	The nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas	—	—
1997	A/RES/51/45[B]	The nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Africa Caribbean Region Disarmament Agreements Latin America Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Oceania Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Southeast Asia

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

A/RES/51/45 [B]

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Recognizes with satisfaction that the Antarctic Treaty6 and the treaties of Tlatelolco,2 Rarotonga,3 Bangkok4 and Pelindaba5 are gradually freeing the entire southern hemisphere and adjacent areas covered by those treaties from nuclear weapons;

Calls for the ratification of the treaties of Tlatelolco, Rarotonga, Bangkok and Pelindaba by all regional States, and calls upon all concerned States to continue to work together in order to facilitate adherence to the protocols to nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties by all relevant States that have not yet done so;

Calls upon all States to consider proposals to establish further nuclear-weapon-free zones, especially in areas such as the Middle East and South Asia, on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the region concerned, to strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation regime and, with particular reference to the responsibilities of the nuclear-weapon States, to advance the process of nuclear disarmament with the ultimate goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons;

Calls upon the States parties and signatories to the treaties of Tlatelolco, Rarotonga, Bangkok and Pelindaba, in order to promote the common goals envisaged in those treaties, to explore and implement further ways and means of cooperation, including the consolidation of the status of the nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas;

Encourages the competent authorities of nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties to provide assistance to the States parties and signatories to such treaties so as to facilitate the accomplishment of these goals;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-second session an item entitled "The nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas".

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