Ghana

                                              GHANA

Region	Western Africa
UN membership date	08-Mar-57
Population (000, 2018)	29 464a
Surface area (km2)	238 537b
Capital city	Accra
National currency	Ghana Cedi (GHS)

Weapons of Mass Destruction

International Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
CTBT: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty		03/10/1996	14/06/2011
Convention on Nuclear Safety	30/08/2011	06/07/1995	01/06/2011
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material	15/11/2002			16/10/2002
Environmental Modification Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques		21/03/1978	22/06/1978
Biological Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction		10/04/1972	06/06/1975
Chemical Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction	08/08/1997	14/01/1993	09/07/1997
Nuclear Terrorism Convention: International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism		06/11/2006
1925 Geneva Protocol: Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare				03/05/1967
Partial Test Ban Treaty: Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water		08/08/1963	27/11/1963
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons		01/07/1968	05/05/1970
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		11/02/1971	09/08/1972
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	27/06/2011

 

Conventional weapons

International Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)	21/03/2016	24/09/2013	22/12/2015
Convention on Cluster Munitions		03/12/2008	03/02/2011
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	01/12/2000	04/12/1997	30/06/2000
Firearms Protocol: Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition				14/01/2014
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=74&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=74&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=74
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)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7652419/ghana.pdf http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7653953/ghana-26th-rev.pdf
71e Session(2016)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7660991/ghana.pdf http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7662750/ghana.pdf
72e Session(2017)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16152855/statement-by-ghana.pdf http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16153750/statement-by-ghana.pdf http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16154120/statement-by-ghana.pdf
73e Session(2018)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/19409784/ghana.pdf http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/20304250/general-debate-statement-ghana.pdf http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/20304887/ghana.pdf