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Signatories

Bahamas

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bahamas, Frederick Audley Mitchell, signed the TPNW at a high-level ceremony in New York on 19 September 2023, becoming the 93rd signatory.

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
19 Sep 2023
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
TPNW Article 1(1) prohibitions: Compliance in 2023
(a) Develop, produce, manufacture, acquire Compliant
Test Compliant
Possess or stockpile Compliant
(b) Transfer Compliant
(c) Receive transfer or control Compliant
(d) Use Compliant
Threaten to use Compliant
(e) Assist, encourage or induce Compliant
(f) Seek or receive assistance Compliant
(g) Allow stationing, installation, deployment Compliant
TPNW voting and participation
UNGA resolution on TPNW (latest vote) Voted yes (2023)
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 Yes (Ratified 1977, Tlatelolco)
Party to the NPT Yes (Acceded 1976)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2007)
Party to the BWC Yes (Acceded 1986)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 2009)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (12 Sep 1997)
TPNW Art 3(2) deadline N/A
Small Quantities Protocol Yes (Modified)
Additional Protocol No
Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants No
HEU stocks No
Plutonium stocks No

Latest developments

In a statement to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2023, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), of which the Bahamas is a member, appealed for ‘all States that have not done so to join the Treaty without delay’, describing it as ‘a fundamental step towards the irreversible, transparent and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons’.1

The Bahamas was one of the co-sponsors for the 2023 UN General Assembly resolution on the TPNW, which called upon ‘all States that have not yet done so to sign, ratify, accept, approve or accede to the Treaty at the earliest possible date’.2

Recommendations

  • The Bahamas should urgently ratify the TPNW.

  • The Bahamas should conclude and bring into force an Additional Protocol with the IAEA.

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