Chile ratifies the TPAN

With the ratification of Chile, 13 Latin American countries have already ratified the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Five other countries in the region have signed the treaty and are working to ratify it: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

With this ratification, 86 countries have signed the TPAN and 56 those who have ratified it.

On July 7, 2017, after a decade of work by ICAN and its partners, an overwhelming majority of the world's nations adopted a landmark global agreement to ban nuclear weapons, officially known as the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.

The treaty, after reaching its minimum milestone of 50 ratifications, entered into force on January 20, 2021.

It specifically prohibits States parties from developing, testing, producing, manufacturing, acquiring, possessing, deploying, using, or threatening to use nuclear weapons and assisting or encouraging such acts.

It will try to reinforce existing international law that obliges all states not to test, use or threaten the use of nuclear weapons.

The signature of ratification by Chile, coincides with the development of the Latin American March for Nonviolence, which is touring Latin America between September 15, 2021, the Bicentennial of the Independence of Central American countries and October 2, International Day of the Nonviolence.