BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Honduras is a Central American country located in the Caribbean Sea. Honduras borders Guatemala and El Salvador to the west and Nicaragua to the south. Honduras is a representative democratic republic that gained its independence in 1821.

Capital: Tegucigalpa

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1995
• Signed Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968
• Ratified in 1973
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
• Ratified in 2005
• Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
• Ratified in 1979
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
• Ratified in 2003
• Signed the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967
• Ratified in 1968
• Signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967
• Signed the Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
• Signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2013
• Ratified in 2017
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
• Ratified in 1998
• Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2003
• Signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
• Ratified in 2012
• Acceded to the Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) in 2010
• Signed the Inter-American Convention in Firearms in 1997
• Ratified in 2004
• Signed the Inter-American Convention on Transparency on 2001
• Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) in 2004
• Signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL)
• Member of the G-77
• Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
• Member of the Organization for American States (OAS) since 1948

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Chair of the 2008 session of the United Nations First Committee

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament