Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea is currently examining the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) with a view to ratifying it.1
TPNW Status
| Key weapons of mass destruction treaties | ||
|---|---|---|
| NUCLEAR WEAPONS | ||
| Party to the TPNW | No (Signed 2022) | |
| Party to the NPT | Yes (Acceded 1984) | |
| Ratified the CTBT | Yes (Ratified 2022) | |
| Party to an NWFZ | Yes (Acceded 2003, Pelindaba) | |
| CSA with the IAEA | No (Approved 2025) | |
| AP with the IAEA | No (Approved 2025) | |
| BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS | ||
| Party to the BWC | Yes (Acceded 1989) | |
| Party to the CWC | Yes (Ratified 1997) | |
| TPNW Art. 1(1) prohibitions: Compliance in 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| (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 (2025) |
| Participated in 3MSP (2025) | No |
| Participated in 2MSP (2023) | Yes (observer) |
| Participated in 1MSP (2022) | No |
| Average MSP delegation size (% women) | 2 (50%) |
| 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 | No (Approved 2025) |
Latest developments
Equatorial Guinea attended the Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in March 2025 as an observer. It did not make a statement.
In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2025, Equatorial Guinea said that ‘the TPNW represents today the most coherent, comprehensive, and universal instrument’ for achieving the supreme objective of eliminating nuclear weapons. ‘The TPNW symbolizes the moral and legal commitment of the international community to peace by prohibiting without exception the development, production, possession, stockpiling, transfer, and use of nuclear weapons,’ it said.2
‘This Treaty restores credibility to multilateralism by placing human dignity and the sovereign equality of States at the heart of the debate,’ it said, arguing that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), by contrast, ‘has become an obsolete and elitist framework that allows nuclear-weapon States to perpetuate their nuclear dominance, weakening the disarmament commitments undertaken under Article VI.’
In Equatorial Guinea’s view, ‘the NPT can no longer be the cornerstone of the nuclear disarmament regime. The world has changed, and the TPNW has assumed this central role as a new normative, ethical, and humanitarian pillar of the international system, in accordance with international law and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.’ It reaffirmed its commitment to ‘continue promoting the universalization of the TPNW as an expression of justice, equality, and collective responsibility’.
Equatorial Guinea co-sponsored the 2025 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’.3
Recommendations
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Equatorial Guinea should urgently ratify the TPNW.
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Equatorial Guinea should bring into force its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement (CSA) with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and conclude and bring into force an Additional Protocol (AP).