Delegates: Rhenata Anya

Country: República Argentina

Topic: Preventing Terrorist from Acquiring Mass Destructive Weapons

Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world and is subdivided into twenty-three
provincies, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital, and the largest city of the
nation, Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is a city that never sleeps and is famous for its phenomenal
nightlife. Argentina was declared as an independent country on July 9, 1816, by the Congress
of Tucumán. On 24 March 1976, a military junta was installed to replace Isabel Perón. The
1976 Argentine coup d'état was a right-wing coup that overthrew Isabel Perón as President of
Argentina.
Dirty War is the name used by the Military junta for the period of state Terrorism from
1976 to 1983. In the early 1980s Under the military Dictatorship, Argentina began a nuclear
weapons program. As when democratic rule returns in 1983, the Nuclear weapons program was
abolished. The new president, Raúl Alfonsín placed the program under civilian control also
initiated a process of nuclear confidence building with the neighboring country, Brazil.
Argentine foreign policy has been to make progress towards a safer world, by
reducing the risk of proliferation of mass destruction weapons and their vector system as well
as conventional weapons. An Argentine diplomat (Rafael Grossi) has served as Director-
General of the International Atomic Energy Agency since December 3, 2019. International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the
peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including
nuclear weapons. Argentina also is a party to all international instruments that ban mass
destruction weapons.
Terrorism in Argentina has occurred especially during the Argentina Dirty war. In
the early 1990s, the Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay) established a mechanism
for addressing jointly arms and drug trafficking. The Tri-Border Area maintained strong
stances against international terrorism.
In September 1991 Argentina, together with Brazil and Chile, signed the Mendoza
Declaration, which commits signatories not to use, develop, produce, acquire, stock, or
transfer—directly or indirectly—chemical or biological weapons. Argentina continued to
cooperate with the United Nations, the OAS, the neighbor, and the United States on a number
of counterterrorism initiatives. During 2019, the Tri-Border countries continued to focus the
counterterrorism strategy on the Tri-Border Area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay where
suspected terrorism financing networks operate.

With the state above, we come up with a solution to:

I.Tightening up the security on the whole border, with not just focusing around the Tri-Border Area, we
can reduce the possibility of trading mass destructive weapons.
II.Inspecting every ship docked at every port in the country. By doing an inspection, the possibility for
the terrorist to brought mass destructive weapons from outside of the country will be lessened.

Resources:

https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2019/argentina/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina

https://www.refworld.org/docid/4681080823.html

https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/TerrOrgCrime_TBA

https://www.un.org/en/ga/68/meetings/nucleardisarmament/pdf/AR_en.pdf

https://www.nti.org/learn/countries/argentina/

https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/

https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/en/foreign-policy/international-security

https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/en/announcements/news/faurie-argentina-has-right-
candidate-iaea-because-its-international-recognition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_Nuclear_Weapons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Argentine_coup_d%27état

https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/en/news/newsletter/argentina-reaffirms-its-commitment-
nuclear-disarmament