Country Profile: Papua New Guinea

BASIC FACTS

Papua New Guinea is a Member Country of the NAM Movement since 1992

The Independent State of Papua New Guinea is in the southwest region of the Pacific Ocean, near Australia, and occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea. One of the most culturally diverse countries in the world, its population of over 8 million people speaks some 850 languages. After being ruled by three different powers over the course of its history, Papua New Guinea established its independence in 1975.

Capital: Port Moresby

There are no nuclear research reactors or nuclear power plants located in Papua New Guinea. 

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • IAEA Membership (2012)

  • Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BTWC) (1975) 

  • Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) (1987) 

  • Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC) (1997) 

  • Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva Protocol) (1928)  

  • International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) (2007) 

  • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (1970)  

  • Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water (Partial Test Ban Treaty) (1963)  

  • Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof (Sea-Bed Treaty) (1972)  

  • Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) (2014) 

  • The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) (2010)  

  • Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) (1983) 

  • Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Mine Ban Convention) (1999)  

  • Treaty on Open Skies (2002) 

  • Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (Outer Space Treaty ) (1967) 

  • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) (signed - 1996)

 

AGREEMENTS (In force)

  • Application of safeguards in connection with the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (with Protocol) (1983) 


REGIONAL GROUPS

  • Member of the Commonwealth of Nations
  • Member of the Asia-Pacific Group
  • Member of the G-77

 

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament

Country List (Office of Legal Affairs): Papua New Guinea (iaea.org)