Comunicado de los Estados Miembros del OPANAL sobre la X Conferencia de Examen del Tratado sobre la No Proliferación de las Armas Nucleares (TNP)

• Agreement Number: Inf.32/2022

OPANAL

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

Secretariat

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21 September 2022 Inf.32/2022

Original: English/Spanish

Communiqué of the Member States of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear

Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL) on the occasion of the

Tenth NPT Review Conference

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

Caribbean (OPANAL) are fully convinced that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear

Weapons (NPT) is the cornerstone of the disarmament and non-proliferation regime, as its three

pillars aim to:

a) prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons;

b) achieve the total elimination of nuclear arsenals, total in a transparent, verifiable and

irreversible manner, through effective measures relating to the cessation of the arms race and

nuclear disarmament;

c) respect and support the inalienable right of States Parties to develop research, production and

use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination.

Therefore, the OPANAL Member States, deeply concerned about the threat posed to humanity by the

continued existence of nuclear weapons, its modernization, and their possible use or threat of use,

regret that despite the efforts of President Gustavo Zlauvinen of Argentina, the Tenth NPT Review

Conference, which took place from 1-26 August 2022, in New York, concluded without reaching the

required consensus to adopt a final document.

The Member States of OPANAL participated in the Review Conference with a constructive spirit and

political will to reach consensus. This was evidenced by the working document, prepared jointly,

which recommended 21 points that should have been included in the draft final document with a view

to achieving real progress towards a nuclear-weapon-free world.

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Also, OPANAL presented a Memorandum that included information on the compliance of its

Member States with the Treaty of Tlatelolco, a description of the Agency's relations with other

nuclear-weapon-free zones, intergovernmental, and civil society organizations, as well as the

Agency's activities in the areas of gender and disarmament and nonproliferation education.

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The Member States of OPANAL proud to belong to the first densely populated region on the planet

to establish as a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone and to proclaim itself a Zone of Peace, by virtue of which

Latin America and the Caribbean has identified nuclear disarmament as a priority; remain committed

to the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime established by the NPT. They will continue

to comply with and fully implement all its obligations and commitments under the Treaty and those

agreed within the framework of the review process, including the final documents of the 1995, 2000

and 2010 NPT Review Conferences.

1

https://undocs.org/NPT/CONF.2020/WP.7

2

https://undocs.org/NPT/CONF.2020/2/Add.1