BASIC FACTS

Guatemala borders Mexico to northwest, Belize to northeast, Honduras and El Salvador to southeast, and has access to the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Guatemala is a presidential representative democratic republic that gained its independence in 1821.

Capital: Guatemala City 

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1993
• Signed Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968
• Ratified in 1970
• Acceded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1983
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
• Ratified in 2003
• Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
• Ratified in 1973
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1999
• Ratified in 2012
• Signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967
  • Ratified in 1970
• Signed the Moon Treaty (Celestial Bodies) in 1980
• Signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
  • Ratified in 1964
• Signed the Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
  • Ratified in 1996
• Acceded to the Antarctic Treaty in 1991
• Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 1983
• Signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
  • Ratified in 2010
• Signed the Inter-American Convention on Firearms in 1997
  • Ratified in 2003
• Signed the Inter-American Convention on Transparency in 1999
  • Ratified in 2001
• Ratified the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) in 1985
• Signed the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
  • Ratified in 2018
• Signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
  • Ratified in 1999
• Signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2013
• Ratified in 2016

REGIONAL GROUPS

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

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Chair of the 2013 Session of the General Assembly for the Organization of American States (OAS)
• Member of the 2012 and 2013 1540 Committee
• Vice-Chair of the UN First Committee in 2016

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament