Country Profile: Singapore

BASIC FACTS

The Republic of Singapore is a sovereign city-state located on the southern end of the Malay Peninsula. Established as a trading post in 1819 by the British East India Trading Company, Singapore was under British or Japanese rule until after the Second World War. Today Singapore is a highly diverse, densely-populated country with one of the best-ranked standards of living in the world. Singapore is a parliamentary representative republic that gained its independence in 1965.

Capital: Singapore

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

TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

  • Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 1967
  • Member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) since 1970
  • Signed Arms Trade Treaty in 2014
  • Signed Treaty of Bangkok in 1995
    • Ratified in 1997
  • Signed Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1972
    • Ratified in 1972
  • Signed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1993
    • Ratified in 1997
  • Signed Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1999
    • Ratified in 2001
  • Acceded to the Convenvention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) in 2014
  • Signed International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) in 2005
    • Ratified (with reservation) in 2017
  • Acceded to Outer Space Treaty in 1976
  • Succeeded to Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1968
  • Signed Sea-bed Treaty in 1971
    • Ratified in 1976
  • Signed Treaty for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1970
    • Ratified in 1976

REGIONAL GROUPS

  • Member of the G-77
  • Member of the Asia-Pacific Group
  • Founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
  • Member of the East Asia Summit

 

RECENT REPRESENTATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: 

  • Chair of ASEAN in 2018

LINKS

Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs

UN State Summary

Ratification of Treaties & Membership in International Organizations Related to Disarmament