Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere and Adjacent Areas

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99j Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas, published in 2025.

What other versions does this mandate have?

22 versions · 1999–2025

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

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7 subjects

Africa Antarctica Disarmament Agreements Latin America and the Caribbean Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Oceania Southeast Asia

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10 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms 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 calls for greater progress towards the total elimination of all nuclear weapons;

Welcomes the continued contribution that the Antarctic Treaty and the treaties of Tlatelolco, Rarotonga, Bangkok and Pelindaba 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;

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, in this regard recalls with appreciation the ratification by China, France, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of the Protocol to the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia¹¹ and the steps taken by the United States of America towards the ratification of the protocols to the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia, to the Treaty of Pelindaba and to the Treaty of Rarotonga, and encourages progress with a view to concluding consultations between the nuclear-weapon States and the Parties to the Bangkok Treaty on the Protocol to that Treaty;

¹¹Ibid., vol. 2970, No. 51633.

Calls upon the nuclear-weapon States to withdraw any reservations or interpretive declarations contrary to the object and purpose of the treaties establishing nuclear-weapon-free zones;

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, including the steps taken towards the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East, in accordance with, inter alia, the outcome of the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non‑Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;¹²

¹²See 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I) and NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I)/Corr.2), annex.

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 efforts to reinforce coordination among nuclear-weapon-free zones;

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 of the treaties;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-second session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas”.

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