United Nations
A/RES/58/31
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 January 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 66
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2003
[on the report of the First Committee (A/58/455)]
58/31.
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 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,
Recalling also that, in its preamble, the Treaty of Tlatelolco states that military
denuclearized zones are not an end in themselves but rather a means for achieving
general and complete disarmament at a later stage,
Recalling further that, in its resolution 2286 (XXII) of 5 December 1967, it
welcomed with special satisfaction the Treaty of Tlatelolco as an event of historic
significance in the efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and to
promote international peace and security,
Recalling that in 1990, 1991 and 1992 the General Conference of the Agency
for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean
approved and opened for signature a set of amendments 2 to the Treaty of
Tlatelolco,1 with the aim of enabling the full entry into force of that instrument,
Highlighting that, with the ratification of Cuba, the Treaty of Tlatelolco is now
in force for thirty-three sovereign States of the region, thereby consolidating the
first nuclear-weapon-free zone established in a densely populated region,
Noting with satisfaction the interest that the Agency for the Prohibition of
Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean has manifested to promote
mechanisms of cooperation and consultation in other nuclear-weapon-free zones,
Reaffirming the importance of strengthening the Agency as the appropriate
legal and political forum for ensuring cooperation with the agencies of other
nuclear-weapon-free zones,
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