Country Profile: Eswatini

BASIC FACTS

The Kingdom of Eswatini, officially renamed in April 2018 after previously being known as Swaziland, is a small developing country in Africa surrounded by Mozambique and South Africa. Eswatini was a British protectorate from 1903 to 1968, but now is an absolute monarchy ruled by King Mswati III since the 1980s. Its population is mostly made up of ethnic Swazis.

Capital: Mbabane

There are no nuclear power plants or research reactors in Eswatini.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 2013
Member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1970
Acceded to 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1991
Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
- Ratified in 1998
Signed Arms Trade Treaty in 2013
Acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1991
Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
- Ratified in 1996
Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
- Ratified in 2016
Acceded to Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2011
Acceded to Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1969
Signed & Ratified Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) in 2003
Signed International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
Signed Treaty of Pelindaba in 1996
- Ratified in 2000
Signed Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1969
- Ratified in 1970

REGIONAL GROUPS

Member of G-77
Member of the African Group

LINKS

The Government of The Kingdom of Eswatini

The Permanent Mission of Eswatini to the United Nations

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament