Skip to main content
States parties

Honduras

In a statement marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2023, Honduras said that ‘it is imperative to reiterate that the [TPNW] is one of the contributions of non-nuclear-weapon States to the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons’.[1]

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
20 Sep 2017
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
24 Oct 2020 (Ratification)
ENTRY INTO FORCE
22 Jan 2021
DECLARATION
Received 15 Mar 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) 2 (50%)
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 1968, Tlatelolco)
Party to the NPT Yes (Ratified 1973)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2003)
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 1979)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 2005)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (18 Apr 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

Honduras participated in the Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (2MSP) in November and December 2023, where it argued that the universalisation of the TPNW must involve efforts by states and transnational networks to stigmatise not only the use of nuclear weapons, but also their very existence. ‘We recognise that an intense and laudable diplomatic effort has been positively built to universalise the stigmatisation of nuclear weapons.’ ‘Today, the States parties to the TPNW will continue to contribute to developing mechanisms to implement the Treaty and translate its provisions into concrete actions that allow the establishment of measures for the elimination of nuclear weapon programmes, to assist the victims of the use and testing of nuclear weapons, and to remedy the damage caused to the environment,’ it said. 2

Honduras 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

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

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

Can you help us update this state profile? Send e-mail
Did you find this interesting?
Print state profile