Senegal
Senegal 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. In June 2022, Senegal attended as an observer the First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (1MSP) in Vienna. It was also one of the co-sponsors for the 2022 and 2023 UN General Assembly resolutions on the TPNW.
TPNW Status
| 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 (2023) |
| 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) | Voted yes |
| Other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) treaties | |
|---|---|
| Party to an NWFZ | Yes (Ratified 2006, Pelindaba) |
| Party to the NPT | Yes (Ratified 1970) |
| Ratified the CTBT | Yes (Ratified 1999) |
| Party to the BWC | Yes (Ratified 1975) |
| Party to the CWC | Yes (Ratified 1998) |
| IAEA safeguards and fissile material | |
|---|---|
| Safeguards agreement | Yes (14 Jan 1980) |
| 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 First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2023, Senegal called for urgent collective efforts to conclude a prohibition on the production of fissile material for nuclear-weapons purposes, universalise the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), apply the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), and bring the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) into force.2 In the First Committee, Senegal also called for renewed determination and ‘political will to move forward in achieving the goal of the immediate, complete, irreversible and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons’. This, it said, is ‘the only option to protect the world against the devastation and misery that could result from the use of these weapons’.3
Recommendations
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Senegal should urgently adhere to the TPNW.