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Togo

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2024, Togo said that ‘we must act urgently to ensure that the world is free of nuclear weapons’. It urged states to take ‘strong actions that illustrate our good faith’ instead of just expressing ‘good intentions’.1

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
20 Sep 2017
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
Key weapons of mass destruction treaties
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Party to the TPNW No (Signed 2017)
Party to the NPT Yes (Ratified 1970)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2004)
Party to an NWFZ Yes (Ratified 2000, Pelindaba)
CSA with the IAEA Yes (In force 2012)
AP with the IAEA Yes (In force 2012)
BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 1976)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 1997)
TPNW Art. 1(1) prohibitions: Compliance in 2024
(a) Develop, produce, manufacture, acquire Compliant
Possess or stockpile Compliant
Test 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 (2024)
Participated in 2MSP (2023) No
Participated in 1MSP (2022) No
Average MSP 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
Fissile material
Nuclear facilities No
Fissile material production No
HEU stocks No
Plutonium stocks No
SQP with the IAEA Yes (Modified)

Latest developments

Togo participated in the African Conference on the Universalisation and Implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in September 2024.2

In 2022, the Togolese chapter of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom convened a training workshop in the capital, Lomé, with government officials and civil society representatives to promote Togo’s ratification of the TPNW.3

Recommendations

  • Togo should urgently ratify the TPNW.

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