Summary record of a meeting of the Council held at the Permanent Headquarters, Paris 16e., on Tuesday, 12th September 1967 =img

Although Latin America was outside the NATO area, he wished to make some remarks with reference to Item 92 of the Agenda, as two parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands were situated in the western hemisphere. In the view of his Government, the establishment of a nuclear free zone in Latin America would be a valuable step towards promoting a stabler and safer world.

In the last few years his Government had expressed several times its readiness to participate, with respect to Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles, as an equal partner in this project. He regretted, therefore, that the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons in Latin America, as signed in Mexico on 14th February, did not permit the Kingdom of the Netherlands to participate on an equal footing.

However, his Authorities’ general attitude towards this regional non-proliferation project remained positive, and they were studying the possibility of taking part in it by signing the Protocol I annexed to the treaty.

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