BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Panama is a Latin American country located between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest and Columbia to the southeast. Panama is a presidential representative republic that gained its independence in 1903.

Capital: Panama City

There are no nuclear research reactors or nuclear power plants in Panama.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• • • • • Member of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1976
        • Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1966
        • Acceded to 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1970
        • Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1997
          • Ratified in 1998
        • Signed Arms Trade Treaty in 2013
          • Ratified in 2014
        • Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
          • Ratified in 1974
        • Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
          • Ratified in 1998
        • Acceded to Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2004
        • Signed Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
          • Ratified in 2010
        • Acceded to Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) in 2003
        • Signed Inter-American Convention on Firearms in 1997
          • Ratified in 1999
        • Acceded to Inter-American Convention on Transparency in 2016
        • Signed Outer Space Treaty in 1967
        • Signed Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
          • Ratified in 1966
        • Signed Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
          • Ratified in 1974
        • Signed Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968
          • Ratified in 1977
        • Signed Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
          • Ratified in 1999
        • Signed International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2006
          • Ratified in 2007
        • Signed Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017
          • Ratified in 2019

REGIONAL GROUPS

• • • • • Member of G-77
        • Member of Latin American Integration Association
        • Member of GRULAC

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• • • • • IAEA Board of Governors for 2019-2020
        • Chairperson of the CTBTO PrepComm in 2017
        • Non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in 2007/2008

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament