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COPREDAL was the Preparatory Commission for the Denuclearization of Latin America created after the Cuban Missile Crisis. It consisted of four sets of sessions, all of them which held in Mexico City. The purpose of the sessions was to prepare a possible draft of the Treaty of Tlatelolco.

The United Nations Assembly authorized COPREDAL on 27 November 1963. (Nobel). The Preliminary Meeting on the Denuclearization of Latin America (REUPRAL) created the "Preparatory Commission for the Denuclearization of Latin America", COPREDAL.

There were four sets of COPREDAL's sessions. The first set of sessions took place from 15 to 22 March 1965, the second set of sessions from 23 August to 2 September 1965 and the third set of sessions from 19 April to 4 May 1965. The fourth set of sessions, also known as the Final Act, was divided into two parts. Part I started on 30 August 19 and Part II followed on 31 January to 14 February 1967.

In the first two sets of sessions, participants simply reported the activities that needed to be done in the following sets of sessions. The agreements made in the third set of sessions consisted of presenting a report of the previous changes to de Co-ordinating Comittee and preparing the draft for the following Treaty of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America. At the end of the fourth session, the objective was to entry the traty into force.

Preparatory Commission created two working groups. Working group 1 was in charge of investigating control systems and predominant technical problems. Working group 2 dealt with legal and political questions. A Drafting Group was also created in order to prepare the final texts.

Some other countries participated as observers, in every set of sessions such as Austria, Canada, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, France, India, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States of America. International organizations were present as well, for example the Internacional Atomic Agency.

Diplomatic consequences
The basic agreement for Latin America is the possession of nuclear weapons directly or indirectly is prohibited. With the intention of The Kingdom of the Netherlands desire to participate, COPREDAL's members decided not to include extracontinental countries, including those which had territories in Latin America.

The Latin American territories belonging to extra continental countries would decide either to permit or deny the passage of nuclear weapons; countries such as United States and France recognized those transit agreements. The Soviet Union refused to recognized such transit agreements. China stated that transportation of nuclear weapons by any method (sea, air, territory) is restricted into China's territory in Latin America. The free zone of transit of nuclear weapons is according to each Latin American State.

Signers

 * 🇦🇷 Argentina


 * 🇧🇴 Bolivia


 * 🇧🇷 Brazil


 * 🇨🇱 Chile


 * 🇨🇴 Colombia


 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica


 * 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic


 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador


 * 🇸🇻 El Salvador


 * 🇬🇹 Guatemala


 * 🇭🇹 Haiti


 * 🇭🇳 Honduras


 * 🇯🇲 Jamaica


 * 🇲🇽 Mexico


 * 🇳🇮 Nicaragua


 * 🇵🇦 Panama


 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay


 * 🇵🇪 Peru


 * 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago


 * 🇺🇾 Uruguay


 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela