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Country Profile: Brunei

BASIC FACTS

Brunei Darussalam is a Member Country of the NAM Movement since 1993.

Brunei Darussalam is located in Southeast Asia, along the northern coast of the island of Borneo, bordering the South China Sea and Malaysia. Brunei is a small, oil-rich sultanate of less than half a million people, making it the smallest country in Southeast Asia by population.

Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • IAEA Membership (2014) 

  • Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty) (1997) 

  • Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BTWC) (1975) 

  • Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) (1987) 

  • Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC) (1997) 

  • Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva Protocol) (1928) 

  • International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) (2007) 

  • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (1970)  

  • Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water (Partial Test Ban Treaty) (1963)  

  • Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof (Sea-Bed Treaty) (1972)  

  • Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) (2014) 

  • The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) (2010)  

  • Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Mine Ban Convention) (1999)  

  • Treaty on Open Skies (2002) 

  • Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (Outer Space Treaty) (1967) 

  • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) (ratified-2013) 

  • Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) (signed-2018) 

 

        REGIONAL GROUPS

  • Member of the G-77

  • Member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 

  • Member of East Asia Summit


 

AGREEMENTS (In Force):  

  • Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the IAEA (2018)  

  • Revised Supplementary Agreements Concerning the Provision of Technical Assistance by the IAEA (RSA) (2021) 

  • Application of Safeguards in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (with Protocol) (1987) 

 

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