Comunicado de los Estados Miembros del OPANAL en el 55° Aniversario del Tratado de Tlatelolco

• Agreement Number: Inf.01/2022 Rev.3

OPANAL

Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean

Secretariat

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Inf.01/2022Rev3

Original: English/ Portuguese/ Spanish

Communiqué of the Member States of the

Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean

(OPANAL)1

on the occasion of the 55th Anniversary of the Treaty of Tlatelolco

14 February 2022

The 33 Member States of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and

the Caribbean (OPANAL):

1. Commemorate this day the 55th Anniversary of the adoption of the Treaty for the Prohibition of

Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean – Treaty of Tlatelolco, and its effective

contribution to nuclear disarmament.

2. Stress that the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which created the first Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in a

densely populated area, has served as a source of inspiration for four other regions in the world

and Mongolia. Consider also that the Treaty and OPANAL are an important heritage of the

international community and a political, legal and institutional reference for the creation of

other nuclear-weapon-free zon es, on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among States

of the region concerned.

3. Recall that, for more than five decades, the Treaty of Tlatelolco, with the permanent work of

OPANAL, has guaranteed that Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as vast areas adjacent

to th eir territories, are kept free of nuclear weapons, without prejudice to the exercise of the

inalienable right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes also recognized in article IV of

1 Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia,

Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras,

Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint

Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of).