Country Profile: Trinidad and Tobago

BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is a cluster of islands located in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Venezuela, and is the most industrialized of the Caribbean nations. In foreign policy, Trinidad and Tobago has an independent voting record but is closely allied to several African nations, and has recently aligned with the U.S. and European Union in the area of counter-terrorism and extremism. Trinidad and Tobago is a parliamentary democratic republic that gained its independence in 1962.

Capital: Port of Spain

There are no nuclear power plants or research reactors in Trinidad and Tobago.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 2012
Member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1970
Succeeded to 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1970
Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
- Ratified in 1998
Signed and ratified Arms Trade Treaty in 2013
Acceded to Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 2007
Acceded to Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1997
Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 2009
- Ratified in 2010
Acceded to Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2011
Signed Inter-American Convention on Firearms in 1998
- Ratified in 2004
Signed Outer Space Treaty in 1967
Signed Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
- Ratified in 1964
Signed Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967
- Ratified in 1970
Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) in 2001
Signed Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968
- Ratified in 1986
Signed & Ratified Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2019

REGIONAL GROUPS

Member of G-77
Member of the Latin America and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Member of Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Member of Organization of American States (OAS)

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Secretary-General of CARICOM from 1992 to 2010

LINKS

Government of Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament