Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere and Adjacent Areas

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66lNuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas, published in 2003.

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22 versions · 1999–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/31

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15 topics

Africa Caribbean Region Disarmament Agreements International Obligations Latin America Middle East Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Weapon States Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Oceania Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications South Asia Southeast Asia Treaty Compliance

What does this mandate say?

8 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the continued contribution that the Antarctic TreatyError: Reference source not found and the treaties of Tlatelolco,Error: Reference source not found Rarotonga,Error: Reference source not found BangkokError: Reference source not found and PelindabaError: Reference source not found are making towards freeing the southern hemisphere and adjacent areas covered by those treaties from nuclear weapons;

Calls for the ratification of the treaties of Rarotonga and Pelindaba by all States of the region, and calls upon all concerned States to continue to work together in order to facilitate adherence to the protocols to nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties by all relevant States that have not yet done so;

Welcomes the steps taken to conclude further nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the region concerned, and calls upon all States to consider all relevant proposals, including those reflected in its resolutions on the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones in the Middle East and South Asia;

Affirms its conviction of the important role of nuclear-weapon-free zones in strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime and in extending the areas of the world that are nuclear-weapon-free, and, with particular reference to the responsibilities of the nuclear-weapon States, calls upon all States to support the process of nuclear disarmament and to work for the total elimination of all nuclear weapons;

Calls upon the States parties and signatories to the treaties of Tlatelolco, Rarotonga, Bangkok and Pelindaba, in order to pursue the common goals envisaged in those treaties and to promote the nuclear-weapon-free status of the southern hemisphere and adjacent areas, to explore and implement further ways and means of cooperation among themselves and their treaty agencies;

Welcomes the vigorous efforts being made among States parties and signatories to those treaties to promote their common objectives, and considers that an international conference of States parties and signatories to the nuclear-weapon-free-zone treaties might be held to support the common goals envisaged in those treaties;

Encourages the competent authorities of the nuclear-weapon-free-zone treaties to provide assistance to the States parties and signatories to those treaties so as to facilitate the accomplishment of these goals;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas”.

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