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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/60
31 December 1999
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 82
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/54/569)]
54/60.
Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of
Tlatelolco)
The General Assembly,
Recalling that in its resolution 1911 (XVIII) of 27 November 1963 it expressed the hope that the
States of Latin America would take appropriate measures to conclude a treaty that would prohibit nuclear
weapons in Latin America,
Recalling also that in the same resolution it voiced its confidence that, once such a treaty was
concluded, all States, and in particular the nuclear-weapon States, would lend it their full cooperation for
the effective realization of its peaceful aims,
Considering that in its resolution 2028 (XX) of 19 November 1965 it established the principle of an
acceptable balance of mutual responsibilities and obligations between nuclear-weapon States and those
which do not possess such weapons,
Recalling that the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Treaty of Tlatelolco)1 was opened for signature at Mexico City on 14 February 1967,
Noting with satisfaction the holding on 14 February 1997 of the eleventh special session of the
General Conference of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the
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