Colombia
Following the inauguration of Gustavo Petro as President of Colombia on 7 August 2022, the government began preparing a bill to be submitted to the Congress which, once enacted, would enable Colombia’s ratification of the TPNW.
TPNW Status
| TPNW Article 1(1) prohibitions: Compliance in 2022 | ||
|---|---|---|
| (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 (2022) |
| Participated in 1MSP (2022) | 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 1972, Tlatelolco) |
| Party to the NPT | Yes (Ratified 1986) |
| Ratified the CTBT | Yes (Ratified 2008, Annex 2 state) |
| Party to the BWC | Yes (Ratified 1983) |
| Party to the CWC | Yes (Ratified 2000) |
| IAEA safeguards and fissile material | |
|---|---|
| Safeguards agreement | Yes |
| TPNW Art 3(2) deadline | N/A |
| Small Quantities Protocol | No |
| Additional Protocol | Yes |
| Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants | No |
| HEU stocks | Cleared |
| Plutonium stocks | No |
Latest developments
At the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in August 2022, Colombia said: ‘The catastrophic, painful and prolonged humanitarian and environmental consequences of any use of nuclear weapons make it necessary to adopt urgent and effective measures for their total elimination … This is a moral imperative and an inescapable responsibility to present and future generations.’1 In a closing statement to the NPT Review Conference, Colombia and 64 other TPNW supporters urged ‘all states committed to attain and maintain a world without nuclear weapons to join the TPNW without delay’.2
In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2022, Colombia said that it is ‘our collective ethical and existential responsibility’ to work to avoid ‘the untold suffering’ and ‘global devastation’ wrought by nuclear weapons.3
Recommendations
- Colombia should urgently ratify the TPNW.