The Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere and Adjacent Areas

A/RES/52/38[N]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71d Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1997–1998

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?

11 subjects

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

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

A/RES/52/38 [N]

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Welcomes the contribution that the Antarctic Treaty51 and the treaties of Tlatelolco,47 Rarotonga,48 Bangkok49 and Pelindaba50 are making towards 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;

Welcomes the steps taken to conclude further nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the region concerned, and calls upon all States to consider all relevant proposals, including those reflected in its resolutions on the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones in the Middle East and South Asia;

Stresses the role of nuclear-weapon-free zones in strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime and in extending the areas of the world that are nuclear-weapon-free, and, with particular reference to the responsibilities of the nuclear-weapon States, calls upon all States to support 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 pursue the common goals envisaged in those treaties and to promote the nuclear-weapon-free status of the southern hemisphere and adjacent areas, to explore and implement further ways and means of cooperation among themselves and their treaty agencies;

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-third session the item entitled "The nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas".

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