Mongolia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
| Contract (from) | region | Signatory / ratification |
Year signed / in force |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antarctic Treaty | Antarctic | 45/45 | 1959/1961 |
| Tlatelolco | Latin America / Caribbean | 33/33 | 1967/1968 |
| Rarotonga | South pacific | 13/13 | 1985/1986 |
| Two-plus-four contract | former GDR and Berlin | 6/5 * | 1990/1991 |
| Mongolia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone | Mongolia | 1/1 | 1992/2000 |
| Bangkok | South East Asia | 10/10 | 1995/1997 |
| Pelindaba | Africa | 53 (54) / 40 | 1996/2009 |
| Semei | Central Asia | 5/5 | 2006/2009 |
| * ratified by all still existing contracting parties (the GDR no longer existed) | |||
In 1992 the then Mongolian President Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat declared that Mongolia was aiming for the status of a nuclear-weapon-free zone . In the same year, the last Russian forces left the country and Mongolia took note of the changed geopolitical importance of the country, whereupon the president recognized the opportunity for Mongolian neutrality .
Mongolia's striving for international recognition resulted in UN resolution 53/77 D, in which the UN General Assembly welcomed the project on December 4, 1998 and put it on the agenda for the next meeting.
On February 28, 2000, the Mongolian UN representative presented a document in which the Mongolian law prohibiting the stationing of nuclear weapons in Mongolia is recorded. Legally, the basis of Mongolia's nuclear-weapon-free zone is a unilateral Mongolian law.