BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Ivory Coast. It gained its independence in 1960, and since 2015 Burkina Faso has been a unitary presidential constitutional republic.

Capital: Ouagadougou

There are no nuclear power plants or research reactors in Burkina Faso.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1998
• Member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1973
• Acceded to 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1971
• Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
  • Ratified in 1998
• Signed Arms Trade Treaty in 2013
  • Ratified in 2014
• Acceded to Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1991
• Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
  • Ratified in 1997
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
  • Ratified in 2002
• Acceded to Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2003
• Signed Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
  • Ratified in 2010
• Signed International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
• Signed Outer Space Treaty in 1967
  • Ratified in 1968
• Signed Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
• Signed Treaty of Pelindaba in 1996
  • Ratified in 1998
• Signed Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968
  • Ratified in 1970

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the Africa Group
• Member of the African Union
• Member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
• Member of the G-77

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Member of the 1540 Committee in 2008-2009

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament