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Country Profile: United Arab Emirates

BASIC FACTS

United Arab Emirates is a Member Country of the NAM Movement since 1973 

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a constitutional monarchy and federation of seven emirates located on the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula, bordered by Saudi Arabia and Oman. The vast majority of its population are expatriates, drawn by one of the largest oil and natural gas reserves in the world and consequentlya relatively strong economy. 

Capital: Abu Dhabi

The Barakah Nuclear Power Plant is the first such plant on the Arabian Peninsula. The Barakah plant contains four pressurizedAPR1400 water reactors.The first reactor's grid connection occurred in 2020 and the fourth became fully operational in 2024. The four reactors are expected to produce some 5600MW of power and supply up to 25% of the UAE’s electricity needs.The power plant is the result of a contract between the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Korea Electric Power Corporation, concluded in 2009. 

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • IAEA Membership(1976)2 

  • Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) (2008)3 

  • Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) (2000)4 

  • Signed Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)(2000)5 

  • Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (2009)6 

  • Acceded to International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) (2008)7 

  • Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (1995)8 

 

AGREEMENTS (In force): 

 

  • Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (2003) 

  • Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (2016) 

  • Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1987) 

 

  • Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (1987) 

  • Joint Protocol Relating to the Application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention (2012) 

  • Convention on Nuclear Safety (2009) 

  • Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (2009) 

  • Protocol to Amend the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (2012) 

  • Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (2015) 

  • Revised Supplementary Agreements Concerning the Provision of Technical Assistance by the IAEA (RSA) (1989) 

  • Agreement between the United Arab Emirates and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in Connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (2003) 

  • Protocol Additional to the Agreement between the United Arab Emirates and the IAEA for the Application of Safeguards in Connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (2010) 


REGIONAL GROUPS

  • Member of the Arab League
  • Member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
  • Member of OPEC
  • Member of the Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Member of the Asia-Pacific Group
  • Member of the G-77

 

LINKS

Nuclear power in the United Arab Emirates. World Nuclear Association. 

Country List (Office of Legal Affairs): United Arab Emirates (iaea.org)

Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations

UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation

Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament