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Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe - OPANAL

Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico • 6 Employees
Political Organization

The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (known as the Treaty of Tlatelolco) is the legal instrument signed and ratified by all 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It prohibits: the testing, use, manufacture, production or acquisition by any means whatsoever of any nuclear weapons, directly or indirectly, within the region.It commits its contracting parties to use exclusively for peaceful purposes the nuclear material and facilities which are under their jurisdiction (Article 1). By this means, the Treaty of Tlatelolco established the NWFZ of Latin America and the Caribbean.In order to ensure compliance with the obligations of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, the Contracting Parties established in 1969 the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL).The Agency is responsible for holding meetings among Member States related to the purposes, provisions and procedures established by the Treaty.The Treaty of Tlatelolco establishes the General Conference, the Council and the Secretariat as principal organs of OPANAL.All 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are Contracting Parties of the Treaty of Tlatelolco and, consequently, States Members of OPANAL: Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.