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Namibia

Addressing the First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (1MSP) in Vienna in June 2022, Namibia said: ‘We must acknowledge that any use of nuclear weapons has devastating humanitarian consequences, and that these weapons continue to be an existential risk to humanity.'[1] On 25 February 2022, Namibia also acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), and on 4 July 2022 it upgraded its Original Small Quantities Protocol (SQP) with the IAEA to a Modified SQP.

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
8 Dec 2017
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
20 Mar 2020 (Ratification)
ENTRY INTO FORCE
22 Jan 2021
DECLARATION
Received 21 Feb 2021
TPNW Article 1(1) prohibitions: Compliance in 2022
(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 (2022)
Participated in 1MSP (2022) Yes
1MSP delegation size (% women) 2 (100%)
Adoption of TPNW (7 July 2017) Voted yes
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 2012, Pelindaba)
Party to the NPT Yes (Acceded 1992)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2001)
Party to the BWC Yes (Acceded 2022)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 1995)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes
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

In the margins of the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in August 2022, Namibia chaired an African Group meeting to promote universalisation of the TPNW.2

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2022, Namibia said that it is ‘encouraged by the entry into force of the TPNW and the progress in its implementation’. ‘The TPNW remains a major step towards a world free of nuclear weapons and, if we are genuine in our pursuit towards disarmament, we have a collective responsibility to ensure its universalisation,’ it said.3

In November 2022, in accordance with its Article 12 obligation to promote universal adherence to the TPNW, Namibia recommended that Brazil ratify the TPNW as part of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review.4

Recommendations

  • Namibia should continue to encourage other states to adhere to the TPNW.
  • Namibia should ensure that all the TPNW obligations are implemented domestically, through legal, administrative, and other necessary measures.
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