BASIC FACTS

The Kingdom of Thailand is a unitary state on the Southeast Asian Indochinese Peninsula, bordered by Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Malaysia. The system of constitutional monarchy was established after a 1932 revolution and the kingdom’s name was officially changed from Siam.

Capital: Bangkok

There are no nuclear power plants in Thailand. The Thai Institute of Nuclear Technology operates a light water, graphite reactor (TRR-1/M1) for neutron radiography and irradiation experiments. The Suranee University of Technology is currently planning development of a reactor (SUT MNSR) for neutron boron capture therapy in the future.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1957
• Member of the Non-Alignment Movement (NAM) since 1993
• Signed 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1925
  • Ratified in 1931
• Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
  • Ratified in 1998
• Signed Arms Trade Treaty in 2014
• Signed Bangkok Treaty in 1995
  • Ratified in 1997
• Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1973
  • Ratified in 1975
• Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
  • Ratified in 2002
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
  • Ratified in 2018
• Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) in 2018
• Signed International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
  • Ratified in 2019
• Signed Outer Space Treaty in 1967
  • Ratified in 1968
• Signed & Ratified Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
• Acceded to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1972
• Signed & Ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of G-77
• Member of the Asia-Pacific Group
• Founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Held G-77 Chairmanship in 2016
• IAEA Board of Governors for 2019-2020

LINKS

Thailand Office of Atoms for Peace

Permanent Mission of Thailand to the United Nations

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament