NTI: Country Overviews: Pakistan: Introduction

Pakistan: 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)	---------
Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT)	State Party
IAEA Safeguards Agreement	Yes (INFCIRC 34, 34/Add. 1, 116, 135, 239, 248, 393, 418)
IAEA Additional Protocol	---------
Nuclear Safety Convention	State Party
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)[3]	Not Submitted[4]
Geneva Protocol	State Party[5]

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	---------
Suppression of Terrorist Bombings	State Party
Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection	Signatory
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]	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.
[4]	Did not submit information on BWC CBMs from 1997-2002.
[5]	By a note of 13 April 1960, Pakistan informed the depositary Government that it was a party to the Protocol by virtue of Paragraph 4 of the Annex to the Indian Independence Act of 1947.


	Updated January 2004

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	NRDC Nuclear Notebook
	Annotated Factsheet of Pakistan's Nuclear Facilities
	Safety of Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal and Installations
	Pakistan Special Weapons Guide
	Nuclear Weapons Database - Pakistan's Possible Nuclear Delivery Systems
	Pakistan Biological Weapons
	Pakistan Chemical Weapons
	Pakistan's Instrument of Ratification (Chemical Weapons Convention)
	Joint Declaration on the Complete Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 19 August 1992 (New Delhi)
	AQ Khan Nuclear Chronology


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