Due to its scope and its validity in the active construction of regional peace, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) was incorporated into Regional Registry of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program.
During the XXV Session of the General Conference of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL), held on February 14, 2017 within the framework of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, Dr. Rosa María Fernández Zamora – President of the National Committee of the Memory of the World Program of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), presented the Certificate of Registration of the Treaty of Tlatelolco in the Regional Registry of Latin America and the Caribbean of the Memory of the World Program of the UNESCO.
The inscription of the Treaty of Tlatelolco in said Registry represents a recognition of the documentary value of this international instrument that has marked a milestone in the international non-proliferation regime of nuclear weapons.
The Treaty of Tlatelolco has been signed and ratified by the 33 States of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Treaty remains in force as it guarantees that the Region and large adjacent high seas areas remain free of nuclear weapons. The five nuclear-weapon States (China, France, the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia) signed and ratified Additional Protocol II to the Treaty of Tlatelolco, through which these States assumed the legally binding commitment not to use or threaten to use weapons nuclear weapons in the Zone of Application of the Treaty. In this way, the Treaty established the first nuclear weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in a densely populated region of the planet and set an example for the establishment of other NWFZs in the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, Africa and Central Asia, in addition to Mongolia. (as a nuclear weapons-free state).
El Memory of the World Registry is a list of documentary heritages that have been approved by the International Consultative Committee (ICC) and ratified by the Director General of UNESCO as such, in the context of the Memory of the World (MoW) program. Through this recognition, the documentary heritage becomes protected and disseminated as such.
With information from the UNESCO and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico.