Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere and Adjacent Areas

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 98n Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas, published in 2008.

What other versions does this mandate have?

22 versions · 1999–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/31

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/31	Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas	1,205	86%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/50	Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas	1,045	96%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/44	Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas	1,072	93%Compare
2019	A/RES/74/48	Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas	1,028	93%Compare
2017	A/RES/72/45	Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas	1,008	92%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

14 subjects

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

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the continued contribution that the Antarctic Treaty7 and the treaties of Tlatelolco,3 Rarotonga,4 Bangkok5 and Pelindaba6 are making towards freeing the southern hemisphere and adjacent areas covered by those treaties from nuclear weapons;

Also welcomes the ratification by all original parties of the Treaty of Rarotonga, and calls upon eligible States to adhere to the Treaty and the protocols thereto;

Further welcomes the efforts towards the completion of the ratification process of the Treaty of Pelindaba, and calls upon the States of the region that have not yet done so to sign and ratify the Treaty, with the aim of its early entry into force;

Welcomes the signing of the Semipalatinsk Treaty on 8 September 2006,¹¹ and urges all relevant States to cooperate in resolving outstanding issues with a view to the full implementation of the Treaty;

¹¹Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia.

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 adhered to them;

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;

Affirms its conviction of the important 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 and to work for the total elimination of all nuclear weapons;

Welcomes the progress made on increased collaboration within and between zones at the first Conference of States Parties and Signatories to Treaties that Establish Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones, held in Tlatelolco, Mexico, from 26 to 28 April 2005, at which States reaffirmed their need to cooperate in order to achieve their common objectives;

Congratulates the States parties and signatories to the treaties of Tlatelolco, Rarotonga, Bangkok and Pelindaba, as well as Mongolia, for their efforts to pursue the common goals envisaged in those treaties and to promote the nuclear-weapon-free status of the southern hemisphere and adjacent areas, and calls upon them to explore and implement further ways and means of cooperation among themselves and their treaty agencies;

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

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-third session the item entitled “Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas”.

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