Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere and Adjacent Areas

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97v Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas, published in 2011.

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?

12 subjects

Central Asia Disarmament Agreements Middle East Mongolia Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Weapon States Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Regional Cooperation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Southeast Asia Treaty Compliance

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the continued contribution that the Antarctic TreatyError: Reference source not found and the treaties of Tlatelolco,Error: Reference source not found Rarotonga,Error: Reference source not found BangkokError: Reference source not found and PelindabaError: Reference source not found are making towards freeing the southern hemisphere and adjacent areas covered by those treaties from nuclear weapons;

Notes with satisfaction that all nuclear-weapon-free zones in the southern hemisphere and adjacent areas are now in force;

Notes that the Russian Federation has initiated internal procedures to ratify the appropriate protocols to the Treaty of Pelindaba, and also notes the positive announcement by the United States of America of its intention to begin the process of ratification of the protocols to the treaties of Pelindaba and Rarotonga;

Calls upon all States concerned 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, and in this regard notes the positive announcement by the United States of America of consultations to be conducted with the parties to the nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties in Central and South-East Asia in an effort to sign and ratify the relevant protocols;

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 Second Conference of States Parties and Signatories to Treaties that Establish Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia at which States noted their intention to foster cooperation among the nuclear-weapon-free zones to fully implement the principles and objectives of the treaties and to exchange relevant ideas and best practices in areas of mutual interest;

Congratulates the States parties and signatories to the treaties of Tlatelolco, Rarotonga, Bangkok and Pelindaba, as well as of Central Asia and 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-seventh session the item entitled “Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas”.

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