Latin American Nuclear Nonproliferation Meeting Begins in Cuba

About 200 delegates from Latin American and Caribbean countries began meeting yesterday in Havana to discuss relations between the region and the five nuclear weapons states, according to Xinhua News Agency (see GSN, Oct. 28, 2002).

The two-day meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Arms in Latin American and the Caribbean (OPANAL) began yesterday in Havana, according to Xinhua. During the meeting, delegates are expected to discuss common nuclear nonproliferation policies. OPANAL was created under the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which created a nuclear weapon-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean (Xinhua News Agency, Nov. 6).

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