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Treaty of Semipalatinsk

What means Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones? 

The establishment of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (NWFZ) is a regional approach to strengthen global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament norms and consolidate international efforts towards peace and security. Article VII of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) states: “Nothing in this Treaty affects the right of any group of States to conclude regional treaties in order to assure the total absence of nuclear weapons in their respective territories“.

General Assembly resolution 3472 B (1975) defines a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone as “any zone recognized as such by the General Assembly of the United Nations, which any group of States, in the free exercises of their sovereignty, has established by virtue of a treaty or convention whereby:

(a) The statute of total absence of nuclear weapons to which the zone shall be subject, including the procedure for the delimitation of the zone, is defined;

(b) An international system of verification and control is established to guarantee compliance with the obligations deriving from that statute.

Resolution 3472 (XXX)"Comprehensive study of the question of nuclear-weapon-free zones in all its aspects" United Nations, 11 December 1975.

A/54/42 Annex I "Establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at among the States of the region concerned" Report of the Disarmament Commission, United Nations, 1999

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Outcome Document of the
2nd Conference of States Parties and Signatories to the Treaties that establish Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones
New York, 30 April 2010  DECLARATION
2010NPT

TLATELOLCOTREATY OF TLATELOLCO

    Memorandum from the General Secretariat of the OPANAL prepared for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the NPT (S/Inf.1012)

PELINDABATREATY OF PELINDABA

    African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty. Memorandum of the secretariat of the African Union

RAROTONGATREATY OF RAROTONGA

    Memorandum on activities relating to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty. Submitted by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat

MONGOLIAMONGOLIA

    Memorandum of the Government of Mongolia regarding the consolidation of its international security and nuclear-weapon-free status

CENTRAL ASIATREATY OF CENTRAL ASIA

    Memorandum on activities of the Kyrgyz Republic in its capacity as the depositary of the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia

BANGKOKTREATY OF BANGKOK

    Activities relating to the Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone. Memorandum submitted by Viet Nam