BASIC FACTS

Haiti is located in the Caribbean Sea and shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is a semi-presidential republic that gained its independence on 1804.

Capital: Port-au-Prince

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 2006
• Signed Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968
• Ratified in 1970
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
• Ratified in 2006
• Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
• Ratified in 2005
• Signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967
• Signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
• Signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967
  • Ratified in 1969
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
  • Ratified in 2006
• Signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2014
• Signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2009
• Signed the Inter-American Convention in Firearms in 1997
  • Ratified in 2007
• Signed the Inter-American Convention on Transparency in 1999
• Signed the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) in 1980

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the Organization of American States (OAS) since 1948
• Member of the G-77
• Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament