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Kazakhstan: 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

TREATIES & AGREEMENTS
Nuclear
Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT)	---------
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)	State Party
Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT)	---------
IAEA Safeguards Agreement	Yes (INFCIRC 504)
IAEA Additional Protocol	---------
Nuclear Safety Convention	Signatory
Joint Spent Fuel Management Convention	Signatory
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material	---------
Central Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (CANWZ)	Negotiations on-going

Chemical and Biological
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)	State Party
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC)	---------
BTWC Confidence Building Measures (CBMs)[3]	---------
Geneva Protocol	---------

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	State Party
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	---------
Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf	---------
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]	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.


	Updated October 2003

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