BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Sierra Leone is located on the coast of West Africa between Liberia and Guinea. Sierra Leone is a presidential representative democracy that gained its independence in 1961.

Capital: Freetown

There are no nuclear research reactors or power plants in Sierra Leone.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

• Member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1964
• Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1967
• Acceded to 1925 Geneva Protocol in 1967
• Signed Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1998
  • Ratified in 2001
• Signed Arms Trade Treaty in 2013
  • Ratified in 2014
• Signed the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
  • Ratified in 1976
• Signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
  • Ratified in 2004
• Signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) 2000
  • Ratified in 2001
• Signed Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 1981
  • Ratified in 2004
• Signed and ratified Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008
• Signed Convention on Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) in 1978
• Signed and ratified Outer Space Treaty in 1967
• Signed Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963
  • Ratified in 1964
• Signed Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
• Signed the International Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
• Signed the Treaty of Pelindaba in 1996
• Acceded to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1975

REGIONAL GROUPS

• Member of the G-77
• Member of the African Group
• Member of the African Union
• Member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

LINKS

Sierra Leone Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament