Ecuador
Addressing the First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (1MSP) in Vienna in June 2022, Ecuador expressed support for the Treaty’s full implementation ‘in order to provide it with functionality, connecting it with global challenges and specific thematic aspects, in its different fields of application’.[1]
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) | Yes |
| 1MSP delegation size (% women) | 6 (67%) |
| 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 1969, Tlatelolco) |
| Party to the NPT | Yes (Ratified 1969) |
| Ratified the CTBT | Yes (Ratified 2001) |
| Party to the BWC | Yes (Ratified 1975) |
| Party to the CWC | Yes (Ratified 1995) |
| IAEA safeguards and fissile material | |
|---|---|
| Safeguards agreement | Yes |
| TPNW Art 3(2) deadline | N/A |
| Small Quantities Protocol | Yes (Modified) |
| Additional Protocol | Yes |
| Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants | No |
| HEU stocks | No |
| Plutonium stocks | No |
Latest developments
At the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in August 2022, Ecuador said that the TPNW ‘strengthens the effective implementation’ of the NPT. ‘Nuclear weapons have always been contrary to the principles of international law due to their catastrophic humanitarian impact, and now they are illegal,’ it added.2 In a closing statement to the NPT Review Conference, Ecuador and 64 other TPNW supporters urged ‘all states committed to attain and maintain a world without nuclear weapons to join the TPNW without delay’.3
Marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2022, Ecuador highlighted the convening of the 1MSP and said that its declaration ‘strengthens the commitment of the states parties’ and its action plan ‘seeks to facilitate in a practical way the effective and timely implementation of the Treaty’.4
Recommendations
- Ecuador should continue to encourage other states to adhere to the TPNW.
- Ecuador should ensure that all the TPNW obligations are implemented domestically, through legal, administrative, and other necessary measures.