Country Profile: Gambia

BASIC FACTS

The Republic of the Gambia is a country on the western coast of Africa, almost completely surrounded by Senegal. Gambia is a presidential republic that gained its independence in 1965.

Capital: Banjul

There are no nuclear power plants or research reactors in The Gambia.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

- - - - Member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1973
      - Membership approved – pending deposit of legal instruments – with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2016
      - Succeeded to 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1966
      - Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
        
        Ratified in 2002
      - Signed Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
        
        Ratified in 2018
      - Signed Outer Space Treaty in 1967
      - Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
        
        Ratified in 1997
      - Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
        
        Ratified in 1998
      - Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 2003
      - Signed & Ratified Treaty of Pelindaba in 1996
      - Succeeded to Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1965
      - Signed Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
      - Signed Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968
        
        Ratified in 1975
      - Signed Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017
        
        Ratified in 2018

REGIONAL GROUPS

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

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament