Calendar | |
Participation of Member States, Linked States and Observers | |
Organization of Work | |
Report of the Secretary General | |
Council Report | |
Status of the Treaty and its Additional Protocols | |
Status of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Agency | |
Control system | |
Application of Article 23 | |
Use of Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes | |
Prevention of pollution of the marine environment within the framework of the Treaty of Tlatelolco | |
Strengthening OPANAL | |
Election of Council Members | |
Election of the Secretary General | |
Proposal for modification to the Regulations of the General Conference on the participation of Non-Governmental Organizations in the General Conference. Compliance with Resolution 323 (XIV) | |
Report of the Committee on Contributions and Administrative and Budgetary Affairs | |
Certification of the External Auditor of the financial statements as of 1995, corresponding to the 1994-1995 biennium | |
Certification of the External Auditor of the financial statements as of 1996, corresponding to the 1996-1997 biennium |
Report of the Secretary General | |
Council Report | |
Election of the Secretary General | |
Election of Council Members | |
Status of the Treaty and its Additional Protocols | |
Status of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Agency | |
Application of Articles 13 and 14 of the Treaty | |
Application of Article 23 of the Treaty | |
Prevention of radioactive contamination of the marine environment within the framework of the Treaty of Tlatelolco | |
Strengthening the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL). Report of the Ad-Hoc Working Group (Doc. GTAH/DT/22Rev.1) | |
Participation of Non-Governmental Organizations in the General Conference. Modification to the Regulations of the General Conference | |
Modification of the OPANAL Logo | |
OPANAL annual award for the best thesis presented by students from the universities of the Member States and other interested parties | |
Annual award to personalities who have developed merits in the formation of the Treaty of Tlatelolco and in the activities of OPANAL or who will do so in the future | |
Ordinary Periods of Sessions of the General Conference. Modification to the Regulations of the General Conference | |
Report of the Committee on Contributions and Administrative and Budgetary Affairs (CCAAP) | |
Certification of the External Auditor of the financial statements of the Agency for the year 1995 | |
Certification of the External Auditor of the financial statements of the Agency for the year 1996 | |
vote of thanks |
Minutes of the Eighty-sixth Session |
XV Session of the General Conference
The XV Regular Session of the General Conference was held in Mexico City on July 10, 1997 and was chaired by Her Excellency Mrs. Margarita Diéguez, Ambassador of Mexico. The representative of Argentina and the representative of Guatemala were elected as the two Vice-Presidents of the Conference.
The General Conference had the participation of representatives of nineteen (19) Member States: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela. They also participated five (5) Linked States: Cuba, the People's Republic of China, the United States of America, France, the Netherlands. In addition, they were represented nineteen (19) Observer States: Germany, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Philippines, Finland, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kingdom of Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan, Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Romania, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and the Republic Federal of Yugoslavia; and two (2) international observer organizations: Organization of American States (OAS), Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC).
At the Conference, several topics were discussed and several resolutions were approved, including:
- Prevention of radioactive contamination of the marine environment within the framework of the Treaty of Tlatelolco
- Strengthening the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL)
- Participation of Non-Governmental Organizations in the General Conference. Modification to the Regulations of the General Conference
- OPANAL annual award for the best thesis presented by students from the universities of the Member States and other interested parties