Gambia

                                              GAMBIA

Region	Western Africa
UN membership date	21-Sep-65
Population (000, 2018)	2 164a
Surface area (km2)	11 295b
Capital city	Banjul
National currency	Dalasi (GMD)

Weapons of Mass Destruction

International Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
CTBT: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty		09/04/2003
Convention on Nuclear Safety
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
Environmental Modification Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques
Biological Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction		02/06/1972	01/08/1997
Chemical Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction	18/06/1998	13/01/1993	19/05/1998
Nuclear Terrorism Convention: International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism				06/05/1965
1925 Geneva Protocol: Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare				05/11/1966
Partial Test Ban Treaty: Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water	18/02/1965			27/04/1965
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons		24/09/1968	12/05/1975
Sea-bed Treaty: Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floorand in the Subsoil Thereof		29/10/1971
Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare
Regional Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
Treaty of Pelindaba: African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty		11/04/1996	16/10/1996

 

Conventional weapons

International Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Convention on Cluster Munitions		03/12/2008	11/12/2018
CCW: Convention On Prohibitions Or Restrictions On The Use Of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed To Be Excessively Injurious Or To Have Indiscriminate Effects (With Protocols I, Ii And Iii)
CCW Protocol II: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, BoobyTraps and Other Devices
CCW Protocol V: Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction	01/03/2003	04/12/1997	23/09/2002
Firearms Protocol: Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition
Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare
Regional Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
ECOWAS Convention: ECOWAS Convention on the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons, Their Munitions and Other Related Materials		14/06/2006

 

Transparency Instruments	More Details
United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UNPoA)	http://www.poa-iss.org/Poa13/CountryProfiles/CountryProfileInfo.aspx?CoI=71&pos=1000
International Tracing Instrument: International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons	http://www.poa-iss.org/InternationalTracing/InternationalTraicingInfo.aspx?CoI=71&pos=1000
UN Register of Conventional Arms	http://www.un-register.org/HeavyWeapons/Index.aspx
Military Expenditures Database	http://www.un-arm.org/MilEx/CountryProfile.aspx?CountryId=71
UNSCR 1540- National Reports	http://www.un.org/en/sc/1540/national-implementation/national-reports.shtml
UNSCR 1540- National Implementation Action Plans

Statements First Committee UN General Assembly (Disarmament and International Security) 

Session	Statements
68e Session(2013)	N/A
69e Session (2014)	N/A
70eSession(2015)	N/A
71e Session(2016)	N/A
72e Session(2017)	N/A
73e Session(2018)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/19408434/gambia.pdf