Tunisia

                                              TUNISIA

Region	Northern Africa
UN membership date	12-Nov-56
Population (000, 2018)	11 659a
Surface area (km2)	163 610b
Capital city	Tunis
National currency	Tunisian Dinar (TND)

Weapons of Mass Destruction

International Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
CTBT: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty		16/10/1996	23/09/2004
Convention on Nuclear Safety	20/07/2010	20/09/1994	21/04/2010
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material	08/05/1993			08/04/1993
Environmental Modification Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques		11/05/1978	11/05/1978
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	06/06/1973
Chemical Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction	29/04/1997	13/01/1993	15/04/1997
Nuclear Terrorism Convention: International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism	28/10/2010			28/09/2010
1925 Geneva Protocol: Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare				12/07/1967
Partial Test Ban Treaty: Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water		08/08/1963	26/05/1965
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons		01/07/1968	26/02/1970
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	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	07/10/2009

 

Conventional weapons

International Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Convention on Cluster Munitions		12/01/2009	28/09/2010
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)				15/05/1987
CCW Protocol II: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, BoobyTraps and Other Devices				23/03/2006
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				07/03/2008
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction	01/01/2000	04/12/1997	09/07/1999
Firearms Protocol: Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition		10/07/2002	10/04/2008
Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare
Regional Instruments	Entry into force	Signed	Ratified	Acceded

 

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=197&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=197&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=197
UNSCR 1540- National Reports	http://www.un-arm.org/MilEx/CountryProfile.aspx?CountryId=197
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/media2/432522/tunisia.pdf
69e Session (2014)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/4652816/tunisia.pdf
70eSession(2015)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7652626/tunisia-fr.pdf
71e Session(2016)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7663107/tunisia.pdf
72e Session(2017)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16153208/tunisia-f-.pdf
73e Session(2018)	http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/19408445/tunsia.pdf