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Country Profile: Singapore

BASIC FACTS

Singapore is a Member Country of the NAM Movement since 1967.

The Republic of Singapore is a sovereign city-state located in Southeast Asia, specifically between Malaysia and Indonesia. Singapore was under British or Japanese rule until after the Second World War, the country achieved its independence in 1963 along with the rest of the Malaysian states.

Capital: Singapore

Singapore has no nuclear power plants. The country only utilizes radioactive sources in medical, industrial and research applications.

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • IAEA Membership (1967)

  • Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty) (1997) 

  • 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) 

  • CTBT: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (ratified-2001)  


REGIONAL GROUPS

  • Founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 

  • Member of the G-77

  • Member of the East Asia Summit

 

        AGREEMENTS (In Force):  

  • Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the IAEA (1973)  

  • Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (2014) 

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

  • Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (1998) 

  • Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (1998) 

  • Convention on Nuclear Safety (1998) 

  • Revised Supplementary Agreements Concerning the Provision of Technical Assistance by the IAEA (1980) 

  • Regional Co-operative Agreement for Research, Development and Training Related to Nuclear Science and Technology, 2017 (2017) 

  • Application of safeguards in connection with the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (with Protocol) (1977) 

  • Protocol Additional to the Agreement between the Republic of Singapore and the IAEA for the Application of Safeguards in Connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (2008) 

 

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