BASIC FACTS

The Kingdom of Lesotho is an enclaved country surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. Lesotho is a parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy that gained its independence 1966.

Capital: Maseru

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1970
• Signed Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968
• Ratified in 1970
• Succeeded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1973
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1994
• Ratified in 1994
• Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
• Ratified in 1977
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
• Ratified in 1999
• Signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967
• Signed the Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
• Ratified in 1973
• Signed the Pelindaba Treaty in 1996
• Ratified in 2002
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
• Ratified in 1998
• Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2000
• Signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
• Ratified in 2010
• Signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2013
• Ratified in 2016
• Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) in 2010
• Accepted the 2005 CPPNM Amendment in 2012
• Signed the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
• Ratified in 2010
• Signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2019

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the G-77
• Member of the African Group
• Member of the African Union

LINKS

Lesotho Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Relations

Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Lesotho to the United Nations

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament