Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

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The parties promise to use exclusively for peaceful purposes the nuclear material and facilities which are under their jurisdiction. No testing, use, manufacture, production, acquisition, receipt, storage, installation, or deployment of nuclear weapons, and no encouraging of those actions. The area covered includes Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

Signed at Mexico City on February 14, 1967. Entered into force April 22, 1968.

Parties and year of ratification: Antigua and Barbuda (1983), Argentina (1994), Bahamas (1977), Barbados (1969), Belize (1994), Bolivia (1969), Brazil (1968), Chile (1974), Colombia (1972), Costa Rica (1969), Cuba (signed 1995), Dominica (1993), Dominican Republic (1968), Ecuador (1969), El Salvador (1968), Grenada (1975), Guatemala (1970), Guyana (1995), Haiti (1969), Honduras (1968), Jamaica (1969), Mexico (1967), Nicaragua (1968), Panama (1971), Paraguay (1969), Peru (1969), St. Kitts and Nevis (1995), St. Lucia (1995), St. Vincent and the Grenadines (1992), Suriname (1977), Trinidad and Tobago (1970), Uruguay (1968), Venezuela (1970). Protocol signatures and year of ratification: Protocol I: France (1992), United Kingdom (1969), United States (1981), Netherlands (1971). Protocol II: China (1974), France (1974), USSR (1979), United Kingdom (1969), United States (1971)