United Republic of Tanzania
In a statement on the occasion of the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2022, Tanzania announced that its internal ratification process for the TPNW is ‘already ongoing’. It encouraged ‘more states to sign and ratify the Treaty to make the dream of the world free from nuclear weapons realistic’, and noted that ‘what is needed is mutual trust and transparency to achieve the goal.’[1]
TPNW Status
| TPNW Article 1(1) prohibitions: Compliance in 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|
| (a) | Develop, produce, manufacture, acquire | Compliant |
| Test | Compliant | |
| Possess or stockpile | 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 (2023) |
| Participated in 2MSP (2023) | Yes (observer) |
| 1MSP delegation size (% women) | 3 (0%) |
| 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 1998, Pelindaba) |
| Party to the NPT | Yes (Acceded 1991) |
| Ratified the CTBT | Yes (Ratified 2004) |
| Party to the BWC | Yes (Ratified 2019) |
| Party to the CWC | Yes (Ratified 1998) |
| IAEA safeguards and fissile material | |
|---|---|
| Safeguards agreement | Yes (7 Feb 2005) |
| 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 a statement marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September 2023, Tanzania warned that ‘nuclear weapons continue to pose a major threat to our current and future generations’. It welcomed the entry into force of the ‘landmark’ TPNW and again encouraged all States that have not yet signed it ‘to find a way to do so’.2 Tanzania observed the Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (2MSP) in November and December 2023, where it pledged to ‘continue to support all efforts by the international community that are geared toward a total, irreversible and verifiable disarmament of nuclear weapons’.3
Tanzania was one of the co-sponsors for the 2023 UN General Assembly resolution on the TPNW, which called upon ‘all States that have not yet done so to sign, ratify, accept, approve or accede to the Treaty at the earliest possible date’.4 In January 2023, it participated in an African regional seminar on universalisation of the TPNW in Pretoria, hosted by the South African foreign ministry.5
Recommendations
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Tanzania should urgently ratify the TPNW.