Country Profile: Maldives

BASIC FACTS

Maldives is a Member Country of the NAM Movement since 1976.

The Republic of Maldives is an insular state that is made up of around 1190 islands. It is a Small Island Developing State (SID) located in the Indian Ocean and southwest of Sri Lanka and India. The Maldives is a currently presidential representative democratic republic after gaining its independence in 1965.  

Capital: Malé

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) (1970)3 

  • Geneva Protocol (1966)4 

  • Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) (1994)5 

  • Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) (1993)6 

  • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (2000)7  

  • Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2000)8 

  • Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (2000)9 

  • Convention on Cluster Munitions (2019)10 

  • Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) (2019)11 

 

AGREEMENTS: 

  • Application of safeguards in connection with the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (with Protocol) (1977) 


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.

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