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Niger

                                              NIGER

Region   Western Africa
UN membership date   20-Sep-60
Population (000, 2018)  22 311a
Surface area (km2)  1 267 000b
Capital city   Niamey
National currency  CFA Franc, BCEAO (XOF)c

Weapons of Mass Destruction

International Instruments
Entry into force 
Signed
Ratified
Acceded
CTBT: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty  

03/10/1996 09/09/2002  
Convention on Nuclear Safety  
05/03/2017
     05/12/2016
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material  18/09/2004
 07/01/1985 19/08/2004

 
Environmental Modification Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques        
17/02/1993
Biological Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction
 
 21/04/1972  23/06/1972  
Chemical Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 29/04/1997  14/01/1993  09/04/1997  
Nuclear Terrorism Convention: International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism  

   02/07/2008
1925 Geneva Protocol: Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare       05/04/1967
Partial Test Ban Treaty: Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water    24/09/1963  03/07/1964  
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons  

    09/10/1992
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  09/08/1971  
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 22/02/2017  

         

 

Conventional weapons

International Instruments
Entry into force 
Signed
Ratified
Acceded
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)  25/10/2015 24/03/2014  24/07/2015  
Convention on Cluster Munitions   03/12/2008

 02/06/2009  
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)        10/11/1992
CCW Protocol II: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, BoobyTraps and Other Devices    

   18/09/2007
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 01/09/1999  04/12/1997  23/03/1999  
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  05/08/2009 14/06/2006 09/02/2007  

 

Transparency InstrumentsMore 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=145&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=145&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=145
UNSCR 1540- National Reports http://www.un.org/en/sc/1540/national-implementation/national-reports.shtml
UNSCR 1540- National Implementation Action Plans  http://www.un.org/en/sc/1540/national-implementation/national-action-plans.shtml
   
   

 
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/media2/7652964/niger-15th-fr.pdf

 71e Session(2016)

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7662929/niger-21-oct.pdf

 72e Session(2017) http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16154171/niger.pdf
 73e Session(2018)  

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/20304387/niger.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/20304989/niger.pdf