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Country Profile: Saint Lucia

BASIC FACTS

Saint Lucia is a Member Country of the NAM Movement since 1983

Saint Luciais a parliamentary democracy island under a constitutional monarchysituated in the Caribbean, between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean.

Capital: Castries

Saint Lucia does not currently operate any nuclear power plants but has recently signed a Country Programme Framework (CPF) agreement with the IAEA to commence medium-term planning oftechnical cooperation projects aimed at enabling nuclear technologies and resources to benefit Saint Lucia’s development goals. Under the CPF, which has started in 2022, the IAEA technical assistance received by Saint Luciawillsupport the country inleveraging the peaceful applications of nuclear technology for Saint Lucia’s main civilian sectors and strategic priorities, which includehealth and nutrition, food and agriculture, radiation safety and nuclear security, energy and industry, and water and environment.   

Saint Lucia has signed, ratified, and enforced the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in September of 2018, January of 2019, and January of 2021, respectively.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • IAEA Membership (2019)

  • Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) (1969)6 

  • Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) (1979)7 

  • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) (2001)8 

  • Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) (2021) 

 

AGREEMENTS (In force)

  • Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material(2012) 

  • Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (2016) 

  • Revised Supplementary Agreements Concerning the Provision of Technical Assistance by the IAEA (RSA) (2019) 

  • Agreement between Saint Lucia and the IAEA for the application of safeguards in connection with the NPT (with Protocol) (1990)  

  • Exchange of letters in connection with the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and Caribbean (Tlatelolco) (1996) 


REGIONAL GROUPS

  • Member of GRULAC
  • Member of CARICOM
  • Member of Organization of American States (OAS) since 1979


RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • President of the 58th General Session and 10th Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly in 2003-2004

LINKS

Saint Lucia Ministry of External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation

Permanent Mission of Saint Lucia to the United Nations

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament

Country List : Office of Legal Affairs : IAEA