Treaties of Trinidad and Tobago - Treaty of Tlatelolco, Treaty of Chaguaramas, Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Treaty of Tlatelolco is the conventional name given to the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is embodied in the OPANAL (el Organismo para la Proscripcin de las Armas Nucleares en la Amrica Latina y el Caribe, which is Spanish for the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean). Meeting in the Tlatelolco district of Mexico City on 14 February 1967, the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean drafted this treaty to keep their region of the world free of nuclear weapons. Whereas Antarctica had earlier been declared a nuclear-weapon-free zone under the 1961 Antarctic Treaty, this was the first time such a ban was put in place over such a vast, populated area. The Latin American countries other than Argentina and Cuba all signed the treaty in 1967, along with Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and all of these ratified the treaty by 1972. The treaty came into force on 25 April 1969 after the 13th ratification. Argentina ratified in 1994, more than 26 years after signature, and was thus unprotected by the zone during the Falklands War. Other English-speaking Caribbean nations signed either soon after independence from Britain (1968, 1975, 1983) or years later (1989, 1992, 1994, 1995), all ratifying within 4 years after signing. However, as British territories they had been covered since 1969 when Britain ratified Protocol I. The Netherlands ratified Protocol I in 1971; Suriname signed in 1976 soon after independence from the Netherlands but did not ratify until 1997, 21 years after signing. The U.S. signed Protocol I applying to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in 1977 and ratified in 1981. France signed Protocol I applying to its Cari... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=325761