The Secretary General of OPANAL, Ambassador Flavio Roberto Bonzanini, presented a video message on the occasion of the International Day against Nuclear Tests
Mexico city, August 27, 2021. The Secretary General of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL), Ambassador Flavio Roberto Bonzanini, presented a video message on the occasion of the International Day against Nuclear Tests, celebrated annually since 2010 on the anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk test site.
During his speech, the Secretary General of OPANAL recalled that resolution 64/35, unanimously adopted at the initiative of Kazakhstan at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly, is aimed at raising people's awareness “on the consequences of nuclear weapon test explosions and any other nuclear explosions and the need to stop them as one of the means to achieve the goal of building a world free of nuclear weapons”.
Also in his message, Ambassador Bonzanini urged other nuclear-weapon-free zones to cooperate in order to build a world free of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.