BASIC FACTS

Located in the eastern part of the Caribbean, the Bahamas are surrounded by the United States, Cuba, and Haiti. The Bahamas is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy that gained its independence in 1973.

Capital: Nassau

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1983
• Succeeded to the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1976
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1994
• Ratified in 2009
• Acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1986
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 2005
• Ratified in 2007
• Succeeded to the Outer Space Treaty in 1976
• Succeeded to the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1976
• Acceded to the Sea-bed Treaty in 1989
• Signed Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1976
• Ratified in 1977
• Signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
• Ratified in 1998
• Signed the Inter-American Convention on Firearms in 1998
  • Ratified in 1998
• Signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in 2003
• Ratified in 2014

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the G-77
• Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
• Member of Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL)
• Member of the Organization for American States (OAS)
• Member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament