BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Senegal is located in West Africa, bordered by Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau, and surrounds The Gambia on the Atlantic coast. Senegal is a presidential democratic republic that gained its independence in 1960.

Capital: Dakar

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1960
• Member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1964
• Acceded to 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1977
• 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
• Signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
  • Ratified in 1999
• Acceded to Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 1999
• Signed Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
  • Ratified in 2011
• Signed Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
  • Ratified in 1964
• Signed Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
• Acceded to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) in 2003
• Signed the International Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
• Signed Treaty of Pelindaba in 1996
  • Ratified in 2006
• Signed Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968
  • Ratified in 1970

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the African Union
• Member of the African Group
• Member of the G-77

RECENT REPRESENTATION IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Member of the UN Security Council 2016/2017
• Vice-Chair of the 1540 Committee in 2017
• Member of the 1540 Committee in 2016/2017
• Chairperson of the UN First Committee in 2007
• Rapporteur of the UN First Committee in 2008

LINKS

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament