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Libya

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2024, Libya said that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) ‘drives progress towards the achievement of our ultimate objective: a world free of nuclear weapons’. Furthermore, it ‘does not run counter to the [Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)]’ but rather ‘is a part of our collective efforts’ to fulfil the NPT’s aims.1 Libya welcomed the TPNW’s entry into force in 2021 and called upon all nuclear-armed states to accede to it for the sake of ‘our collective security’.2

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
20 Sep 2017
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
Key weapons of mass destruction treaties
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Party to the TPNW No (Signed 2017)
Party to the NPT Yes (Ratified 1975)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2004)
Party to an NWFZ Yes (Ratified 2005, Pelindaba)
CSA with the IAEA Yes (In force 1980)
AP with the IAEA Yes (In force 2006)
BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 1982)
Party to the CWC Yes (Acceded 2004)
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) Voted yes (2024)
Participated in 2MSP (2023) Yes (observer)
Participated in 1MSP (2022) Yes (observer)
Average MSP delegation size (% women) 7.5 (4%)
Adoption of TPNW (7 July 2017) Did not vote
Participated in TPNW negotiations (2017) Yes
Negotiation mandate (A/RES/71/258) Voted yes
Fissile material
Nuclear facilities Yes
Fissile material production No
HEU stocks Cleared
Plutonium stocks No
SQP with the IAEA No

Latest developments

At a high-level UN event to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2024, Libya noted that it abandoned its nuclear-weapon programme in 2003 and hoped that others would follow suit. It said that it would ‘spare no effort’ to contribute effectively to the implementation of international instruments related to nuclear disarmament.3

Libya observed the First and Second Meeting of States Parties (1MSP and 2MSP) to the TPNW in 2022 and 2023, respectively.

Recommendations

  • Libya should urgently ratify the TPNW.

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