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Zambia

In May 2024, representatives from the various government ministries in Zambia, including defence, foreign affairs and internal security, participated in a workshop to advance Zambia’s ratification process for the TPNW.1

TPNW Status

SIGNATURE
26 Sep 2019
DEPOSIT WITH UNSG
ENTRY INTO FORCE
DECLARATION
Key weapons of mass destruction treaties
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Party to the TPNW No (Signed 2019)
Party to the NPT Yes (Acceded 1991)
Ratified the CTBT Yes (Ratified 2006)
Party to an NWFZ Yes (Ratified 2010, Pelindaba)
CSA with the IAEA Yes (In force 1994)
AP with the IAEA No (Signed 2009)
BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Party to the BWC Yes (Acceded 2008)
Party to the CWC Yes (Ratified 2001)
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) Did not vote
Participated in TPNW negotiations (2017) Yes
Negotiation mandate (A/RES/71/258) Did not vote
Fissile material
Nuclear facilities No
Fissile material production No
HEU stocks No
Plutonium stocks No
SQP with the IAEA Yes (Original)

Latest developments

In the First Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2024, Zambia reiterated ‘its commitment to the international treaties and conventions prohibiting the manufacture and proliferation of nuclear weapons’.2 It said that it ‘has always been a strong advocate of denuclearisation’ and reaffirmed ‘its support for a nuclear-free world considering the devastation that would befall mankind after any use of nuclear weapons’.3

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

Recommendations

  • Zambia should urgently ratify the TPNW.

  • Zambia should bring into force its Additional Protocol (AP) with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and upgrade to a modified Small Quantities Protocol (SQP).

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