UN General Assembly
1964

64. In regard to the concept of nuclear-free zones, we welcomed the declaration made at the first session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its meeting in Cairo in July 1964. One of the key points in that declaration was the concept of Africa as a nuclear-. free zone so as to eliminate from the African continent the hazards of nuclear war and nuclear contamination. We regard the declaration of the African continent as a nuclear-free zone as a first step towards a wider application of the concept of nuclear-free zones which would cover other areas and zones, particularly those that have hitherto been free of nuclear weapons. Our view was that this concept should be extended to cover not only land masses but oceans as well, for the limits of territorial waters were determined in pre-nuclear times according to the limited range of conventional maritime weapons.