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Ghana

Ghana was one of the co-sponsors for the 2023 UN General Assembly resolution on the TPNW, which 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’.[1] In January 2023, it participated in an African regional seminar on universalisation of the TPNW in Pretoria, hosted by the South African foreign ministry.[2]

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
20 Sep 2017
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
TPNW Article 1(1) prohibitions: Compliance in 2023
(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 (2023)
Participated in 2MSP (2023) 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 2011, Pelindaba)
Party to the NPT Yes (Ratified 1970)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2011)
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 1975)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 1997)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (12 Feb 1975)
TPNW Art 3(2) deadline N/A
Small Quantities Protocol No (Rescinded 2012)
Additional Protocol Yes
Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants No
HEU stocks Cleared
Plutonium stocks No

Latest developments

In a statement marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2023, Ghana said that instruments such as the TPNW have ‘reaffirmed the strong expectations of the international community for a world free of nuclear weapons’.3

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2023, Ghana highlighted the entry into force of the TPNW in 2021 and the successful convening of its First Meeting of States Parties in 2022 as encouraging developments. ‘[T]he international community cannot turn a blind eye to the disconcerting reality of ongoing modernisation and enhancements in existing nuclear arsenals,’ it said. ‘This trajectory not only poses a grave threat to global security but also imperils the fundamental values of humanity.’4

Recommendations

  • Ghana should urgently ratify the TPNW.

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