BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Maldives is an insular state located in South Asia in the Arabian Sea of the Indian Ocean. It is located southwest of Sri Lanka and India. Maldives is a presidential representative democratic republic that gained its independence in 1965.

Capital: Malé

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1976
• Signed Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1970
• Ratified in 1970
• Acceded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1966
• Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
• Ratified in 1994
• Ratified the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1993
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1997
• Ratified in 2000
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1998
  • Ratified in 2000
• Acceded to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2000
• Acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2019
• Signed and Ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2019

REGIONAL GROUPS

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

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• The Maldives has served on the United Nations Human Rights Council for two terms. In 2011, it was the smallest member to get elected to the Council.