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 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=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