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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan voted in favour of adopting the TPNW at the UN Diplomatic Conference in 2017 and has consistently voted in favour of the annual UN General Assembly resolutions on the TPNW, including in 2023.

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
TPNW Article 1(1) prohibitions: Compatibility in 2023
(a) Develop, produce, manufacture, acquire Compatible
Test Compatible
Possess or stockpile Compatible
(b) Transfer Compatible
(c) Receive transfer or control Compatible
(d) Use Compatible
Threaten to use Compatible
(e) Assist, encourage or induce Compatible
(f) Seek or receive assistance Compatible
(g) Allow stationing, installation, deployment Compatible
TPNW voting and participation
UNGA resolution on TPNW (latest vote) Voted yes (2022)
Participated in 2MSP (2023) No
1MSP delegation size (% women) N/A
Adoption of TPNW (7 July 2017) Voted yes
Participated in TPNW negotiations (2017) Yes
Negotiation mandate (A/RES/71/258) Voted yes
Other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) treaties
Party to an NWFZ No
Party to the NPT Yes (Acceded 1992)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 1999)
Party to the BWC Yes (Acceded 2004)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 2000)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (29 Apr 1999)
TPNW Art 3(2) deadline N/A
Small Quantities Protocol No (Rescinded 2015)
Additional Protocol Yes
Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants No
HEU stocks No
Plutonium stocks No

Latest developments

Azerbaijan maintains policies and practices that are compatible with all of the prohibitions in Article 1 of the TPNW, and can therefore sign and ratify or accede to the Treaty without the need for a change in conduct.

At the NPT Preparatory Committee meeting in August 2023, Azerbaijan, speaking on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, took note of the TPNW’s entry into force and the convening of its First Meeting of States Parties and expressed its hope ‘that the Treaty would contribute to furthering the objective of the total elimination of nuclear weapons’.1

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2023, Azerbaijan said that it ‘is strongly committed to its arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament obligations’.2]

Recommendations

  • Azerbaijan should urgently adhere to the TPNW.

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