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Liberia

Liberia 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. As part of the Universal Periodic Review conducted by the Human Rights Council, Liberia accepted a recommendation in 2021 to sign and ratify the TPNW.[1]

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
TPNW Article 1(1) prohibitions: Compatibility in 2023
(a) Develop, produce, manufacture, acquire Compatible
Test Compatible
Possess or stockpile Compatible
(b) Transfer Compatible
(c) Receive transfer or control Compatible
(d) Use Compatible
Threaten to use Compatible
(e) Assist, encourage or induce Compatible
(f) Seek or receive assistance Compatible
(g) Allow stationing, installation, deployment Compatible
TPNW voting and participation
UNGA resolution on TPNW (latest vote) Voted yes (2022)
Participated in 2MSP (2023) No
1MSP delegation size (% women) N/A
Adoption of TPNW (7 July 2017) Voted yes
Participated in TPNW negotiations (2017) Yes
Negotiation mandate (A/RES/71/258) Did not vote
Other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) treaties
Party to an NWFZ No (Signed 1996, Pelindaba)
Party to the NPT Yes (Ratified 1970)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2009)
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 2016)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 2006)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (10 Dec 2018)
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

During the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly in September 2023, the President of Liberia, George Weah, said that ‘threats of nuclear escalation’ are one of a number of challenges that ‘continue to serve as obstacles to our quest for a safe and peaceful world’.2

Recommendations

  • Liberia should urgently adhere to the TPNW.

  • Liberia should ratify the Pelindaba NWFZ Treaty, which it signed in 1996.

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