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Country Profile: Timor-Leste

BASIC FACTS

Timor-Leste is a Member Country of the NAM Movement since 2003

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste is a group of islands located near Southeast Asia, closest to the continent of Australia. Colonized by Portugal since the 16th century, Timor-Leste became independent briefly in 1975 before being invaded and occupied by Indonesia until 1999. In 2002, Timor-Leste became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century.  

Capital: Dili

There are no nuclear power plants or research reactor facilities in East Timor.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty) (1997) 

  • Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BTWC) (1975) 

  • Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) (1987) 

  • Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC) (1997) 

  • Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva Protocol) (1928) 

  • International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) (2007) 

  • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (1970)  

  • Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water (Partial Test Ban Treaty) (1963)  

  • Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof (Sea-Bed Treaty) (1972)  

  • Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) (2014) 

  • The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) (2010)  

  • Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Mine Ban Convention) (1999)  

  • Treaty on Open Skies (2002) 

  • Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (Outer Space Treaty ) (1967) 

  • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) (signed-2008) 

  • Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) (signed - 2018)

 

REGIONAL GROUPS

  • Member of G-77

 

 

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