A/RES/56/30 significance in the efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and to promote international peace and security, Recalling further 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, Recalling resolution C/E/RES.27 of the Council of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, 3 in which the Council called for the promotion of cooperation and consultations with other nuclear-weapon-free zones, Noting with satisfaction that the Treaty of Tlatelolco is now in force for thirtytwo sovereign States of the region, Also noting with satisfaction that the amended Treaty of Tlatelolco is fully in force for Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela, 1. Welcomes the concrete steps taken by some countries of the region during recent years for the consolidation of the regime of military denuclearization established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco);1 2. Urges the countries of the region that have not yet done so to deposit their instruments of ratification of the amendments to the Treaty of Tlatelolco approved by the General Conference of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean in its resolutions 267 (E-V), 268 (XII) and 290 (E-VII); 3. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)”. 68th plenary meeting 29 November 2001 _______________ 2 3 2 A/47/467, annex. See CD/1392.