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Country Profile: Jordan

BASIC FACTS

Jordan is a Member Country of the NAM Movement since 1964

Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian West Bank to the west. On May 25, 1923, the British recognized Transjordan’s independence under the rule of Emir Abdullah, but, as outlined in a treaty as well as the constitution in 1928, matters of finance, military, and foreign affairs would remain in the hands of a British “resident.” Full independence was finally achieved after World War II by a treaty concluded in London on March 22, 1946, and Abdullah subsequently proclaimed himself king. The sovereign state is a constitutional monarchy, but the king holdswide executive and legislative powers.  

Capital: Amman

Jordan is a non-nuclear weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and is not believed to harbor nuclear weapons ambitions. In 1998, Jordan was the first country in the Middle East to adopt the Additional Protocol to its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement, which allows the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) extra inspection privileges. In 2007, the Jordan University of Science and Technology started a nuclear engineering degree program in support of the country’s aspirations to have a nuclear power program. The country concluded an agreement with South Korea in 2009 for the construction of the Jordanian Research and Training Reactor on the university’s campus, a 5MW research reactor fueled by 19% low enriched uranium, which is slated for completion by June 2016. In 2023, The director of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) Khaled Touqan, said, looking forward to the next 10 years, JAEC is considering building small reactors 

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • IAEA Membership (1966)

  • Ratified Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) (1970)  

  • Geneva Protocol (1977)

  • Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) (1997) 

  • Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) (1975)

  • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (1998)

  • Partial Test Ban Treaty (1964)

  • Sea-bed Treaty (1971)

  • Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (1998)

  • Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (1995)

  • Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear materials (CPPNM) (2009)

  • Signed the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) (2016) 

 

AGREEMENTS (In Force): 

 

  • Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the IAEA (1982) 

  • Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (2014) 

  • Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (2009) 

  • Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (2016) 

  • Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1988) 

  • Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (1988) 

  • Convention on Nuclear Safety (2009) 

  • Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (2016) 

  • Protocol to Amend the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (2014) 

  • Revised Supplementary Agreements Concerning the Provision of Technical Assistance by the IAEA (RSA) (1989) 

  • Co-operative Agreement for Arab States in Asia for Research, Development and Training Related to Nuclear Science and Technology (the 2017 ARASIA) (2020) 

  • Application of safeguards in connection with the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (with Protocol) (1978) 

  • Protocol Additional to the Agreement between the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the IAEA for the Application of Safeguards in Connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1998) 


REGIONAL GROUPS

  • Member of the G-77
  • Member of the Asia-Pacific Group
  • Member of the Arab League
  • Member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

 

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • Member of the UN 1540 Committee in 2014 and 2015
  • Member of the UN Security Council in 2014/2015, 1982/1983, 1965/1966


LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament

Country List (Office of Legal Affairs): Jordan (iaea.org)

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/jordan-considers-floating-npps-10798331/?cf-view