NTI: Country Overviews: Syria: Profile

Syria: 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]	---------

TREATIES & AGREEMENTS
Nuclear
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)	State Party
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)	---------
Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT)	State Party
IAEA Safeguards Agreement	Yes (INFCIRC 407)
IAEA Additional Protocol	---------
Nuclear Safety Convention	Signatory
Joint Spent Fuel Management Convention	---------
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material	---------

Chemical and Biological
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)	---------
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC)	Signatory
BTWC Confidence Building Measures (CBMs)[3]	---------
Geneva Protocol	State Party[4]

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	---------
Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection	---------
Against the Taking of Hostages	---------
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.
[4]	A number of Middle Eastern States, including Syria, declared upon their accession to the Protocol that their accession to the Protocol and the ratification of the Protocol does not in any case imply recognition of the state of Israel, nor lead to the establishment of relations with the latter concerning the provisions laid down in the Protocol.


	Updated July 2003

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