BASIC FACTS

The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean nation that shares an island with Haiti and is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the north. It is a representative democracy, where the President functions as both the head of the government and the head of the multi-party system. The Republic gained its independence in 1844.

Capital: Santo Domingo

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 2000
• Signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968
  • Ratified in 1971
• Signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2013
  • Ratified in 2014
• Acceded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1970
• Signed the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
  • Ratified in 1973
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
  • Ratified in 2009
• Signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
  • Ratified in 2007
• Signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967
  • Ratified in 1968
• Signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
  • Ratified in 1964
• Signed the Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
  • Ratified in 1972
• Signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967
  • Ratified in 1968
• Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2010
• Signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2009
  • Ratified in 2011
• Signed the Inter-American Convention on Firearms 1997
  • Ratified in 2009
• Accepted the Inter-American Convention on Transparency in 2009
• Signed the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) in 1980
  • Ratified in 2009
• Acceded to the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2008
• Signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear weapons (TPNW) in 2018
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
  • Ratified in 2000

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the G-77
• Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
• Member of the Organization of American States (OAS)
• Member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL)
• Observer in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Member of the 1540 Committee in 2019
• Non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in 2019/2020

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament