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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) voted in favour of adopting the 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 2023. The UAE 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
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
2MSP 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 No
Party to the NPT Yes (Acceded 1995)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2000)
Party to the BWC Yes (Ratified 2008)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 2000)
IAEA safeguards and fissile material
Safeguards agreement Yes (14 Dec 1972)
TPNW Art 3(2) deadline N/A
Small Quantities Protocol No (Rescinded 2021)
Additional Protocol Yes
Enrichment facilities/reprocessing plants No
HEU stocks No
Plutonium stocks No

Latest developments

During the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly in September 2023, the Minister for International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates, Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy, said: ‘The international community should be determined in its efforts to address the greatest threats to global stability, namely the development of nuclear weapons and the undermining of the global non-proliferation regime. We must never tolerate this type of threat, nor accept the risk of a nuclear conflict, one that would result in devastating consequences for all.’1

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2023, the UAE pledged to ‘continue to support all international efforts aimed at establishing a world without nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction’. It criticised Iran for ‘continuing to expand the development of its nuclear programme in contravention of its international obligations’.2

Recommendations

  • The UAE should urgently adhere to the TPNW.

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