Morocco
Morocco voted in favour of adopting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the UN negotiating conference in 2017 and has consistently voted in favour of the annual UN General Assembly resolutions on the Treaty, including in 2025. It 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
| Key weapons of mass destruction treaties | ||
|---|---|---|
| NUCLEAR WEAPONS | ||
| Party to the TPNW | No | |
| Party to the NPT | Yes (Ratified 1970) | |
| Ratified the CTBT | Yes (Ratified 2000) | |
| Party to an NWFZ | Yes (Ratified 2022, Pelindaba) | |
| CSA with the IAEA | Yes (In force 1975) | |
| AP with the IAEA | Yes (In force 2011) | |
| BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS | ||
| Party to the BWC | Yes (Ratified 2002) | |
| Party to the CWC | Yes (Ratified 1995) | |
| TPNW Art. 1(1) prohibitions: Compatibility in 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| (a) | Develop, produce, manufacture, acquire | Compatible |
| Possess or stockpile | Compatible | |
| Test | 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 (2025) |
| Participated in 3MSP (2025) | Yes (observer) |
| Participated in 2MSP (2023) | Yes (observer) |
| Participated in 1MSP (2022) | Yes (observer) |
| Average MSP delegation size (% women) | 3 (22%) |
| Adoption of TPNW (7 July 2017) | Voted yes |
| Participated in TPNW negotiations (2017) | Yes |
| Negotiation mandate (A/RES/71/258) | Abstained |
| Fissile material | |
|---|---|
| Nuclear facilities | Yes |
| Fissile material production | No |
| HEU stocks | No |
| Plutonium stocks | No |
| SQP with the IAEA | No (Rescinded 2007) |
Latest developments
Morocco attended the Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in March 2025 as an observer. ‘We must remind ourselves how a single [nuclear] detonation, deliberate or accidental, could unleash unseen devastation,’ it said. ‘The humanitarian consequences of such a detonation would go beyond borders, generations, and our joint response capabilities.’1
It recalled its active participation in the negotiation of the TPNW in 2017 as an elected vice-president for the African Group, and said that it ‘pursues a disarmament policy that fully and extensively meets the obligations of the Treaty’. It also highlighted the complementarity between the TPNW and other disarmament and non-proliferation instruments.
In the Conference on Disarmament in February 2025, Morocco described nuclear disarmament as one of its ‘top priorities’. ‘We believe that taking no action on disarmament is not an option,’ it said.2
At the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Preparatory Committee meeting in April 2025, Morocco expressed concern at ‘escalating geopolitical tensions, disregard for existing multilateral instruments, a lack of concrete commitments to nuclear disarmament, and a renewed arms race’. ‘The international architecture governing disarmament and non-proliferation is crumbling,’ it warned.3
In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2025, Morocco emphasized that ‘a nuclear war would have no winners or survivors; it is a red line that humanity must never cross’. ‘Morocco firmly rejects the illusion that nuclear arsenals are guarantees of security or pillars of stability,’ it said.4
Recommendations
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Morocco should urgently adhere to the TPNW.