Statement of the Secretary General of OPANAL at the First Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) > >

Statement of the Secretary General of OPANAL at the 74th Session of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly (Spanish)

Statement by Ambassador Luis Javier Campuzano Piña, Coordinator of OPANAL in Vienna, at the LXVI Session of the IAEA General Conference

Statement by the Secretary General of OPANAL on the occasion of the First Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Statement by the Secretary General of OPANAL on the occasion of the International Day against Nuclear Tests – 29 August 2021

Statement by the Secretary General of OPANAL on the occasion of the 12th Anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in Africa – Treaty of Pelindaba

Statement by the Secretary General of OPANAL on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) (Portuguese)

Statement of the Secretary-General of OPANAL on the 25th Anniversary of the Opening for Signature of the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty – Treaty of Pelindaba

Communiqué of the Secretary-General of OPANAL, Ambassador Flávio Roberto Bonzanini, and Executive Secretary of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE), Mr. Messaoud Baaliouamer, on the occasion of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Communiqué of the Secretary-General of OPANAL, Ambassador Flávio Roberto Bonzanini, on the occasion of the International Day against Nuclear Tests

Statement of Ambassador Flávio Roberto Bonzanini, Secretary-General of OPANAL, at the seminar on pillar II of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in preparation for the 2020 NPT Review Conference

Statement of Ambassador Flávio Roberto Bonzanini, Secretary-General of OPANAL, at the commemorative event of the 53rd Anniversary of the opening for signature of the Treaty of Tlatelolco (Spanish only)

Statement of Ambassador Flávio Roberto Bonzanini, Secretary-General of OPANAL, at the discussion on the “Relevance and effectiveness of the Treaty of Tlatelolco in light of the current challenges for nuclear disarmament” (Spanish only)

Statement of the Secretary General of OPANAL at the 74th Session of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly

Statement of the Secretary General of OPANAL at the 63rd General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Statement by H. E. Mauro Vieira, Permanent Representative of Brasil to the United Nations and Coordinator of OPANAL in New York, on behalf of Ambassador Luiz Filipe de Macedo Soares, Secretary-General of OPANAL, at the Third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 

Lecture by Ambassador Luiz Filipe de Macedo Soares, Secretary-General of OPANAL, on the occasion of the 52nd Anniversary of the Treaty of Tlatelolco

Statement by H.E. Gustavo Felipe Lembcke Hoyle, Ambassador of the Republic of Peru to Algeria, on behalf of the Secretary-General of OPANAL, in the Extraordinary Session of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) held in Algiers, Algeria, on 12 and 13 February 2019

High-Level Panel: Exchange with the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and other High-Level Officials on the “Current state of affairs in the field of arms control and disarmament”

73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly – First Committee: Disarmament and International Security

62nd Session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered by Ambassador Eric Anderson Machado (Permanent Representative of Peru to the IAEA) in his capacity as Coordinator of OPANAL in Vienna

48th Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS)

Second Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

Information on the Document “Nuclear Posture Review (NPR)” issued by the Government of the United States of America on February 2nd, 2018  >

Regional consultations on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT): Towards the PrepCom 2018

Presentation of the publication of the International Seminar of OPANAL: “A world free of nuclear weapons: Is it possible? Is it desirable? How could it be achieved?”

Exchange with the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and other High-Level Officials on the “Current state of affairs in the field of arms control and disarmament and the role of international organizations with mandates in this field”

72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly – First Committee: Disarmament and International Security

Side Event: “Dialogue among Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia” >

61st Session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – Statement delivered by Guatemala on behalf of the Secretary-General of OPANAL

The Treaty of Tlatelolco: the first legally binding instrument that prohibited nuclear weapons – Summer School on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation – 4th Edition

Second session of the United Nations Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination

First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

Side Event: “Tlatelolco at 50: The Continued Relevance and Potential of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones”

First Session of the United Nations Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination – Exchange of views on institutional arrangements >

First Session of the United Nations Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination – High-Level segment

Side Event: “50 years of the Treaty of Tlatelolco: an inspiration to the world”

Opening speech of the XXV Session of the General Conference of OPANAL – 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Tlatelolco 

71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly – First Committee: Disarmament and International Security

60th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – Statement delivered by Mexico on behalf of the Secretary-General of OPANAL

Open-ended Working Group Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations

Special Session of the Council of OPANAL on the occasion of the visit by Ambassador Mauro Vieira, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil

Special Session of the Council of OPANAL on the occasion of the visit by Mr Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly – First Committee: Disarmament and International Security

The Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Latin America and the Caribbean – 2nd Edition on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

III Conference of States Party and Signatories of Treaties that Establish Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia

Conference on Disarmament

Message addressed to the Conference on Disarmament on the occasion of the 48th Anniversary of the Treaty of Tlatelolco – Delivered by Argentina on behalf of the Secretary-General of OPANAL

International Seminar “Roads to Nuclear Disarmament: A Case of Convergence in Diversity – Humanitarian Approach to Nuclear Weapons” >

Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons – Statement delivered by Ecuador on behalf of the Secretary-General of OPANAL 

69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly – First Committee: Disarmament and International Security

58th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – Statement delivered by Ecuador on behalf of the Secretary-General of OPANAL

The Latin American and Caribbean Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone – Summer School on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

Third Session of the Preparatory Committee of the 2015 Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

Committee on Hemispheric Security – Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS)

Publications and interviews

Nada indica que el terror nuclear ha pasado; – interview for Deutsche Welle (DW)

Persiste la amenaza nuclear en el orbe, sostiene secretario general del Opanal; – interview for La Jornada

50° Aniversario del Tratado de Tlatelolco, SG OPANAL Macedo Soares: “La única garantía contra el uso y la amenaza del uso de las armas nucleares es su total eliminación”; – interview for Pressenza International Press Agency

The Treaty of Tlatelolco and the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean – OPANAL: Efficacy, Consolidation and Enhancement (Appendix of the publication of the International Seminar of OPANAL:  “A world free of nuclear weapons: Is it possible? Is it desirable? How could it be achieved?”, p. 201-225)

Forward of the publication of the International Seminar of OPANAL:  “A world free of nuclear weapons: Is it possible? Is it desirable? How could it be achieved?”, p. 5-11

The Nuclear Spring – article published in El Excélsior

Foreword IV of the book “Alfonso García Robles – Premio Nobel de la Paz, Padre del Desarme Nuclear en América Latina”;. Author of the book: Rafael Medina Martínez; Editorial: Las Animas

¿Cuál es la función de OPANAL?; – interview for Excélsior TV

The Day the World Changed – article published in Reforma

Día Internacional contra los Ensayos Nuclerares > – interview for Consejo Profesional de Química of Argentina

Para que serve a bomba – article published in Política Externa

Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament

Fissile material cut-off treaty

-Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament

-Prevention of nuclear war, including all related matters

-Effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament

Prevention of an arms race in outer space

Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament

Fissile material cut-off treaty

Programme of work of the Conference on Disarmament

Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament