At its 42nd session in November 2023, the UNESCO General Conference adopted a resolution recommending that the United Nations General Assembly declare 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ 2025). Mexico was the lead sponsor of this resolution, with 56 other countries co-sponsoring, as reported by Optics and Photonics News.
According to a review published in APL Quantum, Mexico successfully campaigned for the initiative’s endorsement by the UNESCO General Conference, after which Ghana introduced the resolution to the United Nations General Assembly with 71 additional co-sponsors. The UN General Assembly formally proclaimed IYQ 2025 on June 7, 2024.
Mexico’s diplomatic leadership on the IYQ initiative was carried out in coordination with the Mexican Physical Society (Sociedad Mexicana de Física) and an international coalition of scientific societies. Ana María Cetto of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) was among the group that presented the initiative to the UN General Assembly in New York.