Everything about The Treaty Of Tlatelolco totally explained
The
Treaty of Tlatelolco is the conventional name given to the
Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is embodied in
the OPANAL (el Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe, which is
Spanish for the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean).
Meeting in the
Tlatelolco district of
Mexico City on
14 February 1967, the nations of
Latin America and the
Caribbean drafted this treaty to keep their region of the world free of
nuclear weapons.
Whereas
Antarctica had earlier been declared a
nuclear-weapon-free zone under the
1961 Antarctic Treaty, this was the first time such a ban was put in place over such a vast, populated area.
The treaty came into force on
25 April 1969, and has since been signed and ratified by all 33 nations of Latin America and the Caribbean. (
Cuba was the last country to ratify, on
23 October 2002.)
Under the treaty, the states' parties agree to prohibit and prevent the "testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition by any means whatsoever of any nuclear weapons" and the "receipt, storage, installation, deployment and any form of possession of any nuclear weapons."
There are two additional protocols to the treaty:
Protocol I binds those overseas countries with territories in the region (the
United States, the
United Kingdom,
France, and the
Netherlands) to the terms of the treaty.
Protocol II requires the world's declared nuclear weapons states to refrain from undermining in any way the nuclear-free status of the region; it has been signed and ratified by the USA, the UK, France,
China, and
Russia.
The treaty also provides for a comprehensive control and verification mechanism, overseen by the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL), based in Mexico City.
Alfonso García Robles and
Alva Myrdal received the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 for their efforts in promoting the treaty.
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