OEA/Ser.P AG/RES. 1791 (XXXI-O/01) 5 June 2001 Original: Spanish INTER-AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY / (Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 5, 2001; subject to review by the Style Committee) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HAVING SEEN the Annual Report of the Permanent Council on the matters entrusted to the Committee on Hemispheric Security (AG/doc.3970/01); RECALLING its resolution AG/RES. 1747 (XXX-O/00), "Inter-American Support for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty"; RECOGNIZING that the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones is an effective and concrete mechanism which contributes to the maintenance of international peace and security; BEARING IN MIND that, as of this date, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) is in force for 32 member states of the OAS; MINDFUL that the General Assembly, in operative paragraph 4 of resolution AG/RES. 1748 (XXX-O/00), reaffirms its commitment to continue striving for a nonproliferation regime that is universal, genuine, and nondiscriminatory in every aspect; REAFFIRMING: The need for universal adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), negotiated within the United Nations framework; and The importance of the CTBT for ensuring the maintenance of international peace and security; NOTING that, to date, the CTBT has been signed by 26 member states of the OAS and ratified by nine of them; and, in particular, that five of the eight states in the region whose ratification is required for the treaty to enter into force have already ratified it; WELCOMING the holding of the Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, to be held in New York from September 25 to 27, 2001; and TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that all states have been invited to participate in the Conference, whether or not they have deposited their instruments of ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, RESOLVES: 1. To urge the states of the region to participate, at the highest possible level, in the Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, to be held in New York City from September 25 to 27. 2. To urge the states of the region that have not yet done so, in particular the states included in Appendix 2 to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), to sign and/or ratify the CTBT, as appropriate, so that it may enter into force as soon as possible. 3. To request the Secretary General to transmit this resolution to the United Nations Secretary-General and to the Executive Secretary of the Provisional Technical Secretariat of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization.