Noting that security and disarmament issues have always been recognized as significant topics in Latin America and the Caribbean, the first inhabited region in the world to be declared a nuclear-weapon-free zone,
注意到在拉丁美洲和加勒比地区，安全与裁军问题一直被认为是重要问题，该区域是世界上第一个宣布为无核武器区的有人居住区域，