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Djibouti

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2024, Djibouti reiterated ‘its unwavering support’ for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and announced its intention ‘to ratify it very soon’. It also called on states that have not yet joined the TPNW to do so ‘as soon as possible’.1

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
9 Jan 2023
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
Key weapons of mass destruction treaties
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Party to the TPNW No (Signed 2023)
Party to the NPT Yes (Acceded 1996)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2005)
Party to an NWFZ No (Signed 1996, Pelindaba)
CSA with the IAEA Yes (In force 2015)
AP with the IAEA Yes (In force 2015)
BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Party to the BWC No
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 2006)
TPNW Art. 1(1) prohibitions: Compliance in 2024
(a) Develop, produce, manufacture, acquire Compliant
Possess or stockpile Compliant
Test 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 (2024)
Participated in 2MSP (2023) Yes (observer)
Participated in 1MSP (2022) No
Average MSP delegation size (% women) 1 (100%)
Adoption of TPNW (7 July 2017) Voted yes
Participated in TPNW negotiations (2017) Yes
Negotiation mandate (A/RES/71/258) Voted yes
Fissile material
Nuclear facilities No
Fissile material production No
HEU stocks No
Plutonium stocks No
SQP with the IAEA Yes (Modified)

Latest developments

Djibouti was one of the co-sponsors for the 2024 UN General Assembly resolution on the TPNW, which welcomed the Treaty’s entry into force and 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

Djibouti participated in the African Conference on the Universalisation and Implementation of the TPNW in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in September 2024.3

Recommendations

  • Djibouti should urgently ratify the TPNW.

  • Djibouti should adhere to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

  • Djibouti should ratify the Pelindaba nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) Treaty, which it signed in 1996.

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