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