Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 93 Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco), published in 2025.

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4 versions · 2016–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/15	Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)	989	96%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/35	Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)	971	82%Compare
2019	A/RES/74/27	Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)	949	81%Compare
2016	A/RES/71/27	Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)	935	–

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3 subjects

Latin America and the Caribbean Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Treaties

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the fact that the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) is in force for all sovereign States of the region;

Notes with satisfaction that the year 2025 marks the fifty-sixth anniversary of the entry into force, on 25 April 1969, of the Treaty of Tlatelolco and of the establishment of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean;

Reiterates the importance of the cooperation agreements and memorandums of understanding signed between the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands Forum, the African Commission on Nuclear Energy and the Central Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone, and encourages those and other regions to advance in their full and effective implementation with the objective of fostering cooperation and consultation mechanisms;

Encourages once again States Parties to Additional Protocols I and II to the Treaty of Tlatelolco⁹ to review their interpretative declarations thereto, in accordance with action 9 of the Final Document of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,¹⁰ reaffirming and recognizing the legitimate interests of the States that comprise the nuclear-weapon-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean in receiving full and unequivocal security assurances from the nuclear-weapon States;

⁹United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 634, No. 9068.

¹⁰See 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, vol. I (NPT/CONF.2010/50 (Vol. I)), part I, Conclusions and recommendations for follow-on actions, section I, entitled “Nuclear disarmament”.

Encourages the States members of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean to continue the activities and efforts that they conduct jointly with the Agency, inter alia:

To support the efforts that are being undertaken in a multilateral context to identify and seek effective measures that favour compliance with disarmament and non‑proliferation commitments;

To enhance cooperation with States Parties and signatories to treaties that establish nuclear-weapon-free zones and Mongolia;

To promote activities on nuclear disarmament and non‑proliferation education;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-third session the item entitled “Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)”.

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