UN General Assembly
1970

59. In the First Committee we shall attempt, in consultation with the co-Chairmen of the Committee on Disarmament, to achieve what we could not achieve in Geneva. Nevertheless, if our efforts fail once again I announce here and now that Mexico will not be an obstacle to the approval, which we hope will be unanimous, of a resolution on the draft treaty of which I have been speaking similar to those which have been adopted in the past with regard to the Treaties on Outer Space [resolution 2222 (XXI)] and the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [resolution 2373 (XXII)]. Naturally, in that case the eventual signature of the treaty by the Government of my country would have to be accompanied by an interpretative declaration which would cover certain aspects of particular interest to us, among which I would note the question of the emplacement of conventional weapons on the continental shelf, which would be impossible for Mexico to accept because according to our Constitution the continental shelf is part of our national territory.