UN General Assembly
1967

76. A third aspect which should also be stressed—as indeed it was by the Secretary-General in his message of 12 February 1967 to the Preparatory Commission and again in the Introduction to his Annual Report [A/6701/Add.1] — is that this is the first treaty to be concluded in the field of disarmament that establishes an effective system of control under a permanent supervisory organ. The system includes the full application of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, but it is much wider in scope. In the first place, it is intended to verify not only “that devices, services and facilities intended for peaceful uses of nuclear energy are not used in the testing or manufacture of nuclear weapons”, but also to ensure that none of the activities prohibited in article 1 of the Treaty are carried out in the territory of the Contracting Parties with nuclear materials or weapons introduced from abroad, and that any explosions for peaceful purposes that may be carried out are compatible with article 18 of the Treaty. In the second place, the Treaty assigns important supervisory duties to the three principal organs — established under the Treaty — of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America, namely, the General Conference, the Council and the Secretariat.