NTI: Country Overviews: India: Profile

India: Treaties and Organizations



INTERNATIONAL & REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS	STATUS[1]
United Nations (UN)	Member
Conference on Disarmament (CD)	Member
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)	Member
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)[2]	Member
South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)	Member

TREATIES & AGREEMENTS
Nuclear
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)	---------
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)	---------[3]
Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT)	State Party
IAEA Safeguards Agreement	Yes (INFCIRC 66, 154, 211, 260, 360, 374, 433)
IAEA Additional Protocol	---------
Nuclear Safety Convention	Signatory
Joint Spent Fuel Management Convention	---------
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material	State Party
India-Pakistan Non-Attack Agreement	State Party

Chemical and Biological
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)	State Party
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC)	State Party
BTWC Confidence Building Measures (CBMs)[4]	Submitted[5]
Geneva Protocol	State Party[6]

WMD Delivery Systems
International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile	---------

NONPROLIFERATION EXPORT CONTROL REGIMES
Zangger Committee	---------
Nuclear Suppliers Group	---------
Australia Group	---------
Missile Technology Control Regime	---------
Wassenaar Arrangement	---------

TERRORISM CONVENTIONS
Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism	Signatory
Suppression of Terrorist Bombings	State Party
Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection	State Party
Against the Taking of Hostages	State Party
Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft	State Party
Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft	State Party
Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation	State Party
Protocol on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation	State Party
Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation	State Party
Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf	State Party
Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents	State Party

NOTES
[1]	The Status of a State's participation in treaties and organizations is defined in terms of its membership of and adherence to international organizations and treaties and agreements. A State Party fulfilled and implemented domestic legislative legal practices to bring about the legal application of the Treaty on the government and other entities to which the Treaty is applicable, such as formal approval by parliament or legislative bodies, and the Treaty is formally declared to be applicable on the State Party, and the required legal instrument of ratification has been duly deposited with the depositary. A Signatory State refers to a State whose competent authority or representative has affixed its signature to a Treaty text thus indicating acceptance of the Treaty and a commitment not to undertake any actions that would undermine the purpose of the Treaty, according to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, pending formal ratification.
[2]	Membership requires ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
[3]	India's ratification required for the CTBT to enter into force.
[4]	A set of voluntary confidence building measures agreed to at the Second Review Conference of the States party to the BTWC (1986) under Article V.
[5]	Submitted information on BWC CBMs for 1997; did not submit information from 1998-2002.
[6]	A number of States, including India, declared upon their accession to the Protocol that it would cease to be binding on them if their enemies, or the allies of their enemies, failed to respect the prohibitions of the Protocol.


	Updated July 2003

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	NRDC Nuclear Notebook
	Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
	Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS): South Asia
	FAS: India Special Weapons Guide
	India-Pakistan, Joint Declaration on the Complete Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
	U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress
	Carnegie: India Resources


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