Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean

Organisme pour l'interdiction des armes nucléaires en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes
Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe (OPANAL)
Agência para a Proscrição de Armas Nucleares na América Latina e no Caribe

Founded

1969-09-02 Mexico

History

Aims

Contribute towards ending the armaments race, especially in the field of nuclear weapons, and towards strengthening a world at peace, based on the sovereign equality of States, mutual respect and good neighbourliness. Promote the total prohibition of the use and manufacture of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction of every type. Assure the principle of an acceptable balance of mutual responsibilities and duties for the nuclear and non-nuclear powers. Strengthen the peace and security of the hemisphere, and make imperative that the legal prohibition of nuclear war should be strictly observed in practice if the survival of civilization and of mankind itself is to be assured. Proclaim that nuclear weapons constitute, through the persistence of the radioactivity they release, an attack on the integrity of the human species and ultimately may even render the whole earth uninhabitable, that general and complete disarmament under effective international control is a vital matter which all the peoples of the world equally demand to assure that nuclear energy should be used in the region exclusively for peaceful purposes and that the Latin American countries should use their right to the greatest and most equitable possible access to this energy in order to expedient the economic and social development of their people.

Ensure compliance with the obligations of the Treaty, be responsible for the electing of periodic or extraordinary consultations among Member States on matters relating to the purposes, measures and procedures set forth in the Treaty and to the supervision of compliance with the obligations arising from the Treaty of Tlatelolco, signed in 1967; ensure the absence of nuclear weapons in the Zone of application set forth in the Treaty; contribute to the movement against proliferation of nuclear weapons; promote general and complete disarmament; prevent the testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition by any means whatsoever of any nuclear weapons, by the Parties themselves directly or indirectly, on behalf of any one else or in any other way; prevent the receipt, storage, installation, deployment and any form of possession of any nuclear weapons, directly or indirectly, by the Parties themselves, by any one on their behalf or in any other way; refrain from engaging, encouraging or authorizing, directly or indirectly, or in any way participating in the testing, use, manufacture, production, possession or control of any nuclear weapons.

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Relations with Inter-Governmental Organizations

Links with: E-XE3237 - Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).

• Observer status with: United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
• Observer status with: United Nations (UN)
• Cooperates with: Comisión Permanente del Pacifico Sur (CPPS)
• Cooperates with: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
• Cooperates with: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Cooperates with: Latin American Energy Organization
• Cooperates with: Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
• Cooperates with: United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ)
• Cooperates with: United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC)
• Memorandum of Understanding with: African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE)

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Subjects ^*

• Social Activity → Agency
• Defence → Arms
• Law → Prohibition

UIA Org ID

XD0031