BASIC FACTS

Located on the northeast coast of Central America, Belize borders Mexico and Guatemala to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east. Belize is a constitutional monarchy under a parliamentary democracy that gained its independence in 1981.

Capital: Belmopan

Belize does not possess any nuclear power plants, research reactors, or other nuclear facilities.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1976
• Succeeded to the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1985
• Acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 2003
• Acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1986
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 2001
• Ratified in 2004
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1998
• Ratified in 1998
• Signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1992
• Ratified in 1994
• Signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2013
• Ratified in 2015
• Acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2014
• Signed the Inter-American Convention on Firearms in 1997
• Ratified in 1998
• Signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2020

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the G-77
• Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
• Member of the Organization of American States (OAS)
• Member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL)
• Member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Vice-Chair for the First Committee in 2011
• Rapporteur for the First Committee in 2015

LINKS

Permanent Mission of Belize to the United Nations

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament