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Guatemala

During the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly in September 2023, the President of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei Falla, said that as a state party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, TPNW and Treaty of Tlatelolco, ‘my country is deeply committed to the common goal of a world free of weapons of mass destruction’. He described nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation as ‘one of the most important pillars’ of the United Nations.[1]

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
20 Sep 2017
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
13 Jun 2022 (Ratification)
ENTRY INTO FORCE
11 Sep 2022
DECLARATION
Received 28 Dec 2022
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) Yes
2MSP delegation size (% women) 4 (75%)
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 1970, Tlatelolco)
Party to the NPT Yes (Ratified 1970)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2012)
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 1973)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 2003)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (1 Feb 1982)
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, Guatemala celebrated the TPNW’s entry into force in 2021 as ‘a milestone’ and ‘a firm step that legally requires the elimination of nuclear weapons’ and strengthens the NPT.2

Guatemala participated in the Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (2MSP) in November and December 2023, where it expressed grave concern at the increasing risk of the use of nuclear weapons and described the TPNW as ‘a lighthouse representing all of our hopes and aspirations for a world free of nuclear weapons’. It added that, by ratifying the TPNW in 2022, it had ‘reaffirmed its principled position in favour of nuclear disarmament’.3

Guatemala 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’.4

Recommendations

  • Guatemala should continue to encourage other states to adhere to the TPNW.

  • Guatemala should ensure that all of the TPNW obligations are implemented domestically, through legal, administrative, and other necessary measures.

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