Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Disarmament Database

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Country Profile: Afghanistan

BASIC FACTS

Afghanistan is a Member Country of the NAM Movement since 1961

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Afganistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east. Occupying 652,864 square kilometers (252,072 sq mi) of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. 

Capital: Kabul

The ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ does not have nuclear weapons, nor any civilian nuclear facilities. But, its neighbour Pakistan, which is also its supporter, friend, philosopher and guide has it all – a nuclear weapons arsenal, a fissile material stockpile, nuclear power plants, nuclear facilities for enrichment and reprocessing, as well as radiological material for civilian and scientific applications.   

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • IAEA Membership (1957) 

  • Geneva Protocol (1986) 

  • Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2002) 

  • Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) (1975)  

  • Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) (2003) 

  • Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (2003) 

  • Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (2017)  

  • Signed Convention on Cluster Munition (2011) 

  • Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) (1985) 

  • International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) (2013) 

  • Outer Space Treaty (1988) 

  • Partial Test Ban Treaty (1964) 

  • Sea-bed Treaty (1971) 

  • Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (1970) 

 

AGREEMENTS (In Force)

  • Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (2003) 

  • Revised Supplementary Agreements Concerning the Provision of Technical Assistance by the IAEA (RSA) (1991) 

  • Application of Safeguards in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (with Protocol) (1978) 

  • Protocol Additional to the Agreement between the Republic of Afghanistan and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (2005) 


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

https://ola.iaea.org/Applications/FactSheets/Country/Detail?code=AF 

Member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) (oic-oci.org)