Next year’s UN study on Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones offers non-nuclear states a rare chance to reshape the global disarmament agenda. Jorge Alberto López Lechuga says they must use this moment to strengthen, connect, and expand NWFZs — turning regional commitments into a coherent global force against nuclear proliferation
Mexican Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
Jorge has been a member of the Mexican Foreign Service since 2023.
Between 2011 and 2019, he served as Research and Communication Officer at the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL), during which period he participated in negotiations of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
From 2019 to 2022, Jorge worked as Legal and Project Adviser at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs - UN Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNODA - UNLIREC), where he provided legal and technical advise to Caribbean and Latin American States to implement treaties on disarmament of weapons of mass destruction.
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