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Eswatini

Eswatini has consistently voted in favour of the annual UN General Assembly resolutions on the TPNW, including in 2023, when it was also one of the co-sponsors of the resolution. Eswatini maintains policies and practices that are compatible with all of the prohibitions in Article 1 of the TPNW, and can therefore sign and ratify or accede to the Treaty without the need for a change in conduct.

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
TPNW Article 1(1) prohibitions: Compatibility in 2023
(a) Develop, produce, manufacture, acquire Compatible
Test Compatible
Possess or stockpile Compatible
(b) Transfer Compatible
(c) Receive transfer or control Compatible
(d) Use Compatible
Threaten to use Compatible
(e) Assist, encourage or induce Compatible
(f) Seek or receive assistance Compatible
(g) Allow stationing, installation, deployment Compatible
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) Did not vote
Participated in TPNW negotiations (2017) Yes
Negotiation mandate (A/RES/71/258) Did not vote
Other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) treaties
Party to an NWFZ Yes (Ratified 2000, Pelindaba)
Party to the NPT Yes (Ratified 1969)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2016)
Party to the BWC Yes (Acceded 1991)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 1996)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (28 Jul 1975)
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

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2023, Eswatini recalled the ‘historic entry into force of the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons’ and announced that it would ‘soon [be] signing this important Treaty’. It described complete nuclear disarmament as ‘the ultimate prerequisite for maintaining international peace and security’ and warned that the ‘continued existence of nuclear weapons remains an existential threat not only to humanity but also a global threat to nature’.1

Recommendations

  • Eswatini should urgently adhere to the TPNW.

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