We reiterate our firm commitment to nuclear disarmament and the preservation of our region free of these weapons, in tune with the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, the head of Cuban diplomacy wrote on his X profile.

The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean – known as the Tlatelolco Treaty, Mexico – was ratified by all countries in the region in 1967.

Its purpose is to prohibit the testing, use, manufacture, acquisition or deployment of this type of weaponry in this part of the planet, and is considered an important precedent for the proclamation, in January 2014, of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.

According to the preamble of the document, Latin American and Caribbean countries seek to “contribute to ending the arms race, especially nuclear arms, and to the consolidation of a world at peace, founded on the sovereign equality of States, mutual respect and good neighborliness.”

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