BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Nicaragua is the largest Central American country, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south, and between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east. Nicaragua is a constitutional presidential republic that gained its independence in 1821.

Capital: Managua

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Joined International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1977
• Joined Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1979
• Signed 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1925
  • Ratified in 1999
• Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
  • Ratified in 1998
• Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
  • Ratified in 1975
• Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
  • Ratified in 1999
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
  • Ratified in 2000
• Signed Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 1981
  • Ratified in 2007
• Signed Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
  • Ratified in 2009
• Signed Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) in 1977
  • Ratified in 2007
• Signed Inter-American Convention on Firearms in 1997
  • Ratified in 1999
• Signed Inter-American Convention on Transparency in 1999
  • Ratified in 2003
• Signed Outer Space Treaty in 1967
  • Ratified in 2017
• Signed Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
  • Ratified in 1965
• Signed Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
  • Ratified in 1973
• Signed International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
  • Ratified in 2009
• Acceded to Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1999
• Signed Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968
  • Ratified in 1973
• Signed Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017
• Ratified in 2018

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Participant in the Central American Security Commission (CSC)
• Association of Caribbean States (ACS)

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• President of the 63^rd General Session of the UN General Assembly in 2008

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament