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Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan participated in the negotiations on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017, but did not cast a vote on the adoption of the Treaty. It has consistently abstained on the annual UN General Assembly resolutions on the Treaty, including in 2024. Kyrgyzstan maintains policies and practices that are compatible with all of the prohibitions in Article 1 of the TPNW, and can therefore sign and ratify or accede to the Treaty without the need for a change in conduct.

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
26 Sep 2025
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
Key weapons of mass destruction treaties
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Party to the TPNW No (Signed 2025)
Party to the NPT Yes (Acceded 1994)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2003)
Party to an NWFZ Yes (Ratified 2007, Semipalatinsk)
CSA with the IAEA Yes (In force 2004)
AP with the IAEA Yes (In force 2011)
BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Party to the BWC Yes (Acceded 2004)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 2003)
TPNW Art. 1(1) prohibitions: Compliance in 2024
(a) Develop, produce, manufacture, acquire Compliant
Possess or stockpile Compliant
Test 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) Abstained (2024)
Participated in 2MSP (2023) No
Participated in 1MSP (2022) No
Average MSP delegation size (% women) N/A
Adoption of TPNW (7 July 2017) Did not vote
Participated in TPNW negotiations (2017) Yes
Negotiation mandate (A/RES/71/258) Did not vote
Fissile material
Nuclear facilities No
Fissile material production No
HEU stocks No
Plutonium stocks No
SQP with the IAEA Yes (Original)

Latest developments

At a high-level UN event to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2024, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, Jeenbek Kulubayev, emphasised the importance of efforts to raise public awareness about nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and said that ‘the elimination of nuclear weapons must remain a priority on the international agenda’.1

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2024, Kyrgyzstan reiterated its support for ‘international efforts towards achieving a world free of nuclear weapons’ and described the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as ‘the most fundamental and effective international instrument’ in the field of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.2

At the NPT Preparatory Committee session in July 2024, the five states parties to the Central Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) treaty – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – noted that they ‘have committed themselves voluntarily and unequivocally to ban the production, acquisition and deployment of nuclear weapons and their components or other nuclear explosive devices on their territories’.3

Recommendations

  • Kyrgyzstan should urgently adhere to the TPNW. Until it is in a position to do so, it should welcome the TPNW as a valuable component in the global disarmament and non-proliferation architecture, work with the Treaty's states parties on practical steps towards disarmament, and attend the meetings of states parties as an observer.

  • Kyrgyzstan should upgrade to a modified Small Quantities Protocol (SQP) with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

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