BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Cameroon is located on the west coast of Central Africa, and borders Nigeria to the north, Chad to the Northeast, Central African Republic to the east, Republic of Congo to the southeast, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea to the south. Cameroon is a presidential republic that gained its independence in 1960.

Capital: Yaounde

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1964
• Signed Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968
• Ratified in 1969
• Acceded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1989
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
• Ratified in 1996
• Acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 2013
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 2001
• Ratified in 2006
• Signed Pelindaba Treaty in 1996
• Ratified in 2010
• Signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1963
• Signed the Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
• Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) in 2004
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
  • Ratified in 2002
• Signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2014
• Ratified in 2018
• Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2006
• Signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2009
• Ratified in 2012
• Signed the Kinshasa Convention in 2010
• Ratified in 2015

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the Conference on Disarmament
• Member of the G-21
• Member of the G-77
• Member of the African Group
• Member of the African Union
• Member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Non-Permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in 2002/2003

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament