BASIC FACTS

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is a landlocked country in central Asia, bordered by Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and China. Today Afghanistan is a unitary presidential Islamic republic that gained its independence in 1919.

Capital: Kabul

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1961
• Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1957
• Acceded to 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1986
• Acceded to Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 2002
• Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
  • Ratified in 1975
• Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
  • Ratified in 2003
• Signed & Ratified Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 2003
• Signed Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 1981
  • Ratified in 2017
• Signed Convention on Cluster Munition in 2008
  • Ratified in 2011
• Acceded to Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) in 1985
• Signed International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
  • Ratified in 2013
• Signed Outer Space Treaty in 1967
  • Ratified in 1988
• Signed Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
  • Ratified in 1964
• Signed & Ratified Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
• Signed Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968
  • Ratified in 1970

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
• Member of the G-77
• Member of the Asia-Pacific Group

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratifications of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament