BASIC FACTS

The Republic of El Salvador is a Central American country bordered by Honduras and Guatemala on the Pacific Coast. El Salvador first gained independence in 1841 and is today a unitary presidential constitutional republic.

Capital: San Salvador

There are no nuclear power plants or research reactors in El Salvador.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Observer of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
• Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1957
• Signed 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1925
  • Ratified in 2008
• Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
  • Ratified in 1999
• Signed Arms Trade Treaty in 2013
  • Ratified in 2014
• Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
  • Ratified in 1991
• Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
  • Ratified in 1995
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
  • Ratified in 1998
• Acceded to Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2000
• Signed Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
  • Ratified in 2011
• Signed Inter-American Convention on Firearms in 1997
  • Ratified in 1999
• Signed Inter-American Convention on Transparency in 1999
  • Ratified in 2002
• Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection on Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) in 2006
• Signed International Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
  • Ratified in 2006
• Signed Outer Space Treaty in 1967
  • Ratified in 1969
• Signed Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
  • Ratified in 1964
• Signed Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967
  • Ratified in 1968
• Signed Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968
  • Ratified in 1972
• Signed Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017
  • Ratified in 2019

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
• Member of the Organization of American States (OAS)
• Member of the Central American Security Commission (CASC)

LINKS

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador

UN State Summary

Ratifications of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament