From April 24 to 29, 2018, the Cultural Day in commemoration of the 51st Anniversary of the Treaty of Tlatelolco was held in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas and at the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center in Mexico City.
The Cultural Day consisted of a series of conferences on the Treaty of Tlatelolco, as well as the remodeling of the plaque commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the adoption of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which was unveiled on August 25th, 2017 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, located in the Tlatelolco neighborhood. The plate contains the message:
Here in Tlatelolco, the first international treaty, in a densely populated area, prohibiting nuclear weapons was signed in 1967. The 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have demonstrated that the only way to eliminate the problem of nuclear weapons, which constitute forces that would cause the destruction of the world, will require the solidarity effort that we all make to inaugurate, with the driving energy of hope, a new era in the history of humanity.
The cultural day was organized by the Cuauhtémoc Delegation of Mexico City, Soka Gakkai International – Mexico and the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center, in coordination with the residents of Tlatelolco.
OPANAL was invited to participate in the event. On April 26, Mr. Jorge Alberto López, Research and Communication Officer of the Agency, presented a conference on the negotiation of the Treaty of Tlatelolco and the contributions of the instrument to international law.
Likewise, Lic. Fabiola Gil Rodríguez, International Relations Officer of OPANAL, participated in the unveiling ceremony of the commemorative plaque of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Tlatelolcco, where she addressed a few words to the attendees, in the presence of the Delgado of Cuauhtémoc, the Director of Soka Gakkai International – Mexico and residents of Tlatelolco.
The Treaty of Tlatelolco established the first Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in a permanently populated region of the world. The Treaty was opened for signature on February 14, 1967 in the Tlatelolco neighborhood of Mexico City (then headquarters of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Today, all 33 States in the region have signed and ratified the Treaty of Tlatelolco. For their part, the five nuclear weapon states (China, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Russia), by signing and ratifying Additional Protocol II to the Treaty, committed to respect the instrument and not to use or threaten to use their nuclear weapons against the States of the region.
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