Declaración de los Estados Miembros del Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe (OPANAL) en el Día Internacional para la Eliminación de las Armas Nucleares - 26 de septiembre

• Agreement Number: Inf.18/2016

AGENCY FOR THE PROHIBITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

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Inf.18/2016

26 September 2016

Original: English/Portuguese/Spanish

Declaration of the Member States of OPANAL on the

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

(26 September 2016)

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

the Caribbean (OPANAL),

Conscious of their historic commitment to global nuclear disarmament,

Proud to b elong to Latin America and the Caribbean, the first densely populated region in the

world that established a nuclear-weapon-free zone by means of the Treaty of Tlatelolco,

Fully aware that they remain a political, legal and institutional model for the creation of other

nuclear-weapon-free zones in different parts of the world,

Reiterating the full validity of the declarations on nuclear disarmament adopted by the

Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) on 20 August 2013, in Buenos

Aires; on 29 January 2014, in Havana; on 29 January 2015, in Belen; and on 27 January 2016, in

Quito,

Reaffirming their rejection of nuclear weapons, which, after more than 70 years of existence and

use, continue to present an imminent danger of destruction to the planet and a risk to international

peace and security;

Stressing the humanitarian impact caused by the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and by the

numerous nuclear tests,

Highlighting the importance of the resolutions adopte d by the United Nations General Assembly

on 7 December 2015: 70/47 “Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons”; 70/48

“Humanitarian pledge for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons”; and 70/50

“Ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world”,