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Jamaica

Jamaica participated in the Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (2MSP) in November and December 2023, where it expressed grave concern that ‘the geopolitical situation has worsened beyond levels seen in decades’, making it ‘even more critical that we work towards the full implementation of the TPNW and champion its universalisation’. It called on all non-parties ‘to take urgent steps to sign and accede to the Treaty’.[1]

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
8 Dec 2017
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
23 Oct 2020 (Ratification)
ENTRY INTO FORCE
22 Jan 2021
DECLARATION
Received 19 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
1MSP delegation size (% women) 3 (33%)
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 1969, Tlatelolco)
Party to the NPT Yes (Ratified 1970)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2001)
Party to the BWC Yes (Acceded 1975)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 2000)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (6 Nov 1978)
TPNW Art 3(2) deadline N/A
Small Quantities Protocol No (Rescinded 2006)
Additional Protocol Yes
Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants No
HEU stocks Cleared
Plutonium stocks No

Latest developments

At 2MSP, Jamaica said: ‘We must continue to dispel the notion that the possession of nuclear weapons represents power, status, deterrence and an instrument of national security. … As responsible States parties and champions of nuclear disarmament, it falls to us to encourage greater public awareness about the dangers of such weapons and more targeted steps towards nuclear disarmament.’2

Speaking on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2023, Jamaica appealed for ‘all states that have not done so to join the [TPNW] without delay’, describing it as ‘a fundamental step towards the irreversible, transparent and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons’.3

Jamaica 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

  • Jamaica should continue to encourage other states to adhere to the Treaty.

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

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