BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Seychelles is an archipelago consisting of 115 islands, located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa. Seychelles is a multi-party presidential republic that gained its independence in 1976.

Capital: Victoria

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Member of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1976
• Member of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 2003
• Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention i n 1997
  • Ratified in 2000
• Signed Arms Trade Treaty in 2013
  • Ratified in 2015
• Acceded to Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1979
• Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
  • Ratified in 1993
• Signed Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996
  • Ratified in 2004
• Acceded to Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 2000
• Signed and ratified Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2010
• 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
• Acceded to Outer Space Treaty in 1978
• Acceded to Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1985
• Acceded to Sea-bed Treaty in 1985
• Signed the Treaty of Pelindaba in 1996
  • Ratified in 2014
• Acceded to Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1985
• Signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2018

REGIONAL GROUPS

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

LINKS

Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Seychelles

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament