Country Profile: Zambia

BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Zambia is a landlocked African country bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. Zambia is a presidential representative democratic republic that gained its independence in 1964.

Capital: Lusaka

There are no nuclear power plants or research reactors in Zambia.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1969
Member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1964
Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
- Ratified in 2001
Signed Arms Trade Treaty in 2013
- Ratified in 2016
Acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 2008
Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
- Ratified in 2001
Signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (NPT) in 1996
- Ratified in 2006
Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2013
Signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
- Ratified in 2009
Acceded to the Outer Space Treaty in 1973
Succeeded to the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1965
Acceded to the Sea-bed Treaty in 1972
Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) in 2016
Acceded to the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2017
Acceded to the Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1991
Signed the Treaty of Pelindaba in 1996
- Ratified in 2010
Signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2019

REGIONAL GROUPS

Member of the African Group
Member of the African Union
Member of the G-77

LINKS

Permanent Mission of Zambia to the United Nations

Republic of Zambia Ministry of Foreign Affairs

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament