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Tunisia

Tunisia voted in favour of adopting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the UN Diplomatic Conference in 2017 and has consistently voted in favour of the annual UN General Assembly resolutions on the Treaty, including in 2024. Tunisia 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

SIGNATURE
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
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 2004)
Party to an NWFZ Yes (Ratified 2009, Pelindaba)
CSA with the IAEA Yes (In force 1990)
AP with the IAEA No (Signed 2005)
BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 1973)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 1997)
TPNW Art. 1(1) prohibitions: Compatibility in 2024
(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 (2024)
Participated in 2MSP (2023) Yes (observer)
Participated in 1MSP (2022) No
Average MSP delegation size (% women) 2 (0%)
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 No

Latest developments

At the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Preparatory Committee session in July 2024, Tunisia said that ‘the existence and development of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery in the Middle East region undoubtedly constitute a major factor in the rise in tensions, the exacerbation of mistrust and the incitement to violence’.1

At a high-level UN event to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2024, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia, Mohamed Ali Nafti, expressed deep concern at the ‘increase in investments in weapons of war and bloodshed, including nuclear weapons, and the threats to use them in full view of everyone’.2

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2024, Tunisia underscored the importance of civil society in ‘bolstering international efforts and raising awareness about the risks of nuclear weapons as we seek to universalise the relevant international instruments’.3

Tunisia participated in the African Conference on the Universalisation and Implementation of the TPNW in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in September 2024.4

Recommendations

  • Tunisia should urgently adhere to the TPNW.

  • Tunisia should bring into force its Additional Protocol (AP) with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

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