African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 92 African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, published in 2023.

What other versions does this mandate have?

21 versions · 1997–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/14

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/14	African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty	562	97%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/15	African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty	549	100%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/14	African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty	550	100%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/34	African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty	550	97%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/18	African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty	538	100%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Africa Nuclear Safeguards Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Recalls with satisfaction the entry into force of the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba) on 15 July 2009;

Calls upon African States that have not yet done so to sign and ratify the Treaty as soon as possible;

Recalls the convening of the first Conference of States Parties to the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba), on 4 November 2010, the second Conference of States Parties, on 12 and 13 November 2012, the third Conference of States Parties, on 29 and 30 May 2014, the fourth Conference of States Parties, on 14 and 15 March 2018, and the fifth Conference of States Parties, on 17 and 18 May 2022, all held in Addis Ababa;

Expresses its appreciation to the nuclear-weapon States that have signed the Protocols to the Treaty⁴ that concern them, and calls upon those that have not yet ratified the Protocols that concern them to do so as soon as possible;

⁴See A/50/426, annex.

Calls upon the States contemplated in Protocol III to the Treaty that have not yet done so to take all measures necessary to ensure the speedy application of the Treaty to territories for which they are, de jure or de facto, internationally responsible and which lie within the limits of the geographical zone established in the Treaty;

Calls upon the African States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons⁵ that have not yet done so to conclude comprehensive safeguards agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency pursuant to the Treaty, thereby satisfying the requirements of article 9 (b) and annex II to the Treaty of Pelindaba, and encourages them to conclude additional protocols to their safeguards agreements on the basis of the model protocol approved by the Board of Governors of the Agency on 15 May 1997;

⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.

Expresses its gratitude to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency for the diligence with which they have rendered effective assistance to the signatories to the Treaty;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-ninth session the item entitled “African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty”.

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