BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Liberia is located in West Africa and borders Sierra Leone to northwest, Guinea to the northeast, and Cote d’Ivoire to the east. Liberia is a presidential representative democratic republic that gained its independence in 1847.

Capital: Monrovia

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1964
• Signed Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968
• Ratified in 1970
• Acceded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1927
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
• Ratified in 2006
• Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
• Ratified in 2016
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
• Ratified in 2009
• Signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
• Ratified in 1964
• Signed the Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
• Signed the Pelindaba Treaty in 1996
• Signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2013
• Ratified in 2015
• Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2005
• Signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
• Acceded to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1999
• Signed the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005

REGIONAL GROUPS

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

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• President of the 24^th General Assembly of the United Nations in 1969
• Non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in 1961

LINKS

Liberia Permanent Mission to the United Nations

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Liberia

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament