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Guyana

In a statement marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2023, Guyana called on all States that have not yet done so to ratify the TPNW ‘and to take concrete steps towards its full and effective implementation’. ‘As members of this global community of nations, we have a moral, ethical and legal obligation to prohibit the use of nuclear weapons,’ it added.[1]

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
20 Sep 2017
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
20 Sep 2017 (Ratification)
ENTRY INTO FORCE
22 Jan 2021
DECLARATION
Received 21 Feb 2021
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) 5 (60%)
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 1995, Tlatelolco)
Party to the NPT Yes (Acceded 1993)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2001)
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 2013)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 1997)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (23 May 1997)
TPNW Art 3(2) deadline N/A
Small Quantities Protocol Yes (Original)
Additional Protocol No
Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants No
HEU stocks No
Plutonium stocks No

Latest developments

Guyana participated in the Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (2MSP) in November and December 2023, which it described as ‘an opportunity to get back on track’: ‘The current geopolitical situation warrants a closer look at the potential use or threat of use of nuclear weapons and its inevitability to exacerbate conflicts,’ it argued. Guyana also expressed concern about ‘the growing pervasiveness of nuclear rhetoric’, ‘the modernisation of nuclear weapons and efforts to increase existing arsenals’, and the promotion of nuclear weapons as instruments of ‘power and prestige and the ultimate solution to preventing and ending conflicts’. It called for ‘the continuous implementation of the TPNW’ and the total elimination of nuclear weapons.2

Guyana 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’.3

Recommendations

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

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

  • Guyana should conclude and bring into force an Additional Protocol with the IAEA, and upgrade to a modified Small Quantities Protocol.

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