BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa. Madagascar is a semi-presidential representative democratic republic that gained its independence in 1960.

Capital: Antananarivo

Madagascar does not possess any nuclear power plants or research reactors.

Madagascar has a storage facility for radioactive sources, operated by the National Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Techniques (INSTN-Madagascar), medical facilities with radioactive sources, a radioisotope laboratory, and a mine that uses radioactive sources.

In August 2019, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts completed a nuclear security advisory mission, carried out at the request of the government of Madagascar. The team observed that Madagascar has established a nuclear security regime that incorporates essential elements of the IAEA’s guidance on the fundamentals of nuclear security.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1973
• Signed Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1968
• Ratified in 1970
• Acceded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1967
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
• Ratified in 2004
• Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
• Ratified in 2008
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
• Ratified in 2005
• Acceded to the Outer Space Treaty in 1968
• Signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
• Ratified in 1965
• Signed the Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
• Acceded to the Pelindaba Treaty in 2003
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
• Ratified in 1999
• Signed the Convention in Cluster Munitions in 2008
  • Ratified in 2017
• Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2008
• Signed the Arms Trade Treaty in 2013
• Ratified in 2016
• Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) in 2003
• Signed the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
• Ratified in 2017
• Signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017

REGIONAL GROUPS

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

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in 1985/1986

LINKS

National Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Techniques

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament