The fourth course on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation for young Latin American and Caribbean diplomats was inaugurated today at the Foreign Ministry. The course is organized by the Foreign Ministry in coordination with the Matias Romero Institute, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL).
The course was inaugurated by the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas; the Director General for the United Nations, Luis Javier Campuzano; the Director General of the Matías Romero Institute, Natalia Saltalamacchia; OPANAL Secretary General Luiz Filipe de Macedo Soares; and CNS Director Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova.
This year, the course will be given at the Foreign Ministry from July 10-14 for 25 young diplomats from 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries, who will be taking part in a first-class academic course on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation given by national and foreign experts.
The course was given for the first time in 2014 as part of the Mexican government's efforts to contribute to disarmament education in line with the guiding principles of its foreign policy and with the international commitments assumed by the United Nations member States.
The course helps train new nuclear disarmament experts in Latin America and the Caribbean, the first nuclear-weapon-free zone created in a densely populated area by the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967.
