Kenya

                                              KENYA

Region	Eastern Africa
UN membership date	16-Dec-63
Population (000, 2018)	50 951a
Surface area (km2)	591 958b
Capital city	Nairobi
National currency	Kenyan Shilling (KES)

Weapons of Mass Destruction

International Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
CTBT: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty		14/11/1996	30/11/2000
Convention on Nuclear Safety
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material	13/03/2002			11/02/2002
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				07/01/1976
Chemical Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction	29/04/1997	15/01/1993	25/04/1997
Nuclear Terrorism Convention: International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism	07/07/2007	15/09/2005	13/04/2006
1925 Geneva Protocol: Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare				06/07/1970
Partial Test Ban Treaty: Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water				10/06/1965
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons		01/07/1968	11/06/1970
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
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	09/01/2001

 

Conventional weapons

International Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Convention on Cluster Munitions		03/12/2008
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	01/07/2001	05/12/1997	23/01/2001
Firearms Protocol: Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition				05/01/2005
Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare
Regional Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
Nairobi Declaration: The Nairobi Declaration on the Problem of the Proliferation of Illicit Small Arms And Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn Of Africa		15/03/2000
Nairobi Protocol: The Nairobi Protocol for the Prevention, Control and Reduction of Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa	05/05/2006	21/04/2004	06/09/2005

 

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=101&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=101&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=101
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)	https://papersmart.unmeetings.org/media2/433368/kenya.pdf
69e Session (2014)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/4652821/kenya.pdf
70eSession(2015)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7652775/kenya-14th.pdf
71e Session(2016)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7661748/kenyas-statement-to-the-first-committee-on-agenda-items-89-105.pdf
72e Session(2017)	N/A
73e Session(2018)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/19409444/kenya.pdf