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Somalia

Somalia participated in the TPNW negotiations in 2017, but did not cast a vote on the adoption of the Treaty. Somalia 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 2021, 2022, and 2023 Somalia voted in favour of the annual UN General Assembly resolution on the TPNW. In the previous years, it had not cast a vote. In 2023, Somalia signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
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) Did not vote
Participated in TPNW negotiations (2017) Yes
Negotiation mandate (A/RES/71/258) Did not vote
Other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) treaties
Party to an NWFZ No (Signed 2006, Pelindaba)
Party to the NPT Yes (Ratified 1970)
Ratified the CTBT No (Signed 2023)
Party to the BWC No (Signed 1972)
Party to the CWC Yes (Acceded 2013)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement No
TPNW Art 3(2) deadline N/A
Small Quantities Protocol No
Additional Protocol No
Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants No
HEU stocks No
Plutonium stocks No

Latest developments

In January 2023, Somalia participated in an African regional seminar on universalisation of the TPNW in Pretoria, hosted by the South African foreign ministry.1

Somalia promoted adherence to the TPNW as part of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review in 2023.

Recommendations

  • Somalia should urgently adhere to the TPNW.

  • Somalia should ratify the Pelindaba NWFZ Treaty, which it signed in 2006.

  • Somalia should conclude and bring into force a Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and an Additional Protocol with the IAEA.

  • Somalia should also ratify the CTBT and the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

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