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Libya

In a statement marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2023, Libya said that ‘the very existence of nuclear weapons is a threat in and of itself to humanity and human civilisation’. It recalled that it abandoned its nuclear weapon programme in 2003.[1]

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
20 Sep 2017
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
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 (observer)
2MSP delegation size (% women) 3 (0%)
Adoption of TPNW (7 July 2017) Did not vote
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 2005, Pelindaba)
Party to the NPT Yes (Ratified 1975)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2004)
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 1982)
Party to the CWC Yes (Acceded 2004)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (8 Jul 1980)
TPNW Art 3(2) deadline N/A
Small Quantities Protocol No
Additional Protocol Yes
Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants No
HEU stocks Cleared
Plutonium stocks No

Latest developments

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2023, Libya expressed concern at the lack of full implementation of the NPT. It is our duty ‘to ensure the elimination of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction’, it said.2

Libya observed the Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (2MSP) in November and December 2023 but did not make a statement. It 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

  • Libya should urgently ratify the TPNW.

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