BASIC FACTS

Located in Caribbean Sea, the State of Grenada consists of three islands: Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique. The State of Grenada lies between Trinidad and Tobago to the south and St. Vincent and the Grenadines to the north. Grenada is a parliamentary representative democracy that gained its independence in 1974.

Capital: Saint George’s

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1979
• Succeeded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1975
• Succeeded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1989
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1997
• Ratified in 2005
• Ratified Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1986
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
  • Ratified in 1998
• Signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1975
• Signed and ratified the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2013
• Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2014
• Acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2011
• Signed the Inter-American Convention on Firearms in 1997
  • Ratified in 2002
• Signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2019
• Ratified the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) in 2002
  • Ratified in 1991
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
• Ratified in 1998

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the G-77
• Member of the Latin America and Caribbean group (GRULAC)

LINKS

 UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament