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Zambia

                                              ZAMBIA

Region   Eastern Africa
UN membership date   01-Dec-64
Population (000, 2018)  17 609a
Surface area (km2)  752 612b
Capital city   Lusaka
National currency  Zambian Kwacha (ZMW)


Weapons of Mass Destruction

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

03/12/1996 23/02/2006  
Convention on Nuclear Safety  

     
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material  07/12/2016
 

 07/11/2016
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
 
    15/01/2008
Chemical Weapons Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 11/03/2001  13/01/1993  09/02/2001  
Nuclear Terrorism Convention: International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism  

 07/04/2017  07/04/2017
1925 Geneva Protocol: Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare        
Partial Test Ban Treaty: Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water  24/10/1964      11/01/1965
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons  

    22/05/1991
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        02/11/1972
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 18/08/2010  

         

 

Conventional weapons

International Instruments
Entry into force 
Signed
Ratified
Acceded
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)   25/09/2013  20/05/2016  
Convention on Cluster Munitions   03/12/2008

 12/08/2009  
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)        25/09/2013
CCW Protocol II: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, BoobyTraps and Other Devices    

   25/09/2013
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        25/09/2013
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention: Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 01/08/2001 12/12/1997 23/02/2001  
Firearms Protocol: Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition    


 24/04/2005  
Treaty relating to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare    

   
         
Regional Instruments
Entry into force 
 
Signed 
 
Ratified 
 
 Acceded
SADC Protocol: Protocol on Control of Firearms, Ammunition and Other Related Materials in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Region  08/11/2004 14/08/2001 16/01/2003  

 

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=216&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=216&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=216
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/media2/433039/zambia.pdf

 69e Session (2014)

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/4652629/zambia.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/4654323/zambia.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/4654533/zambia.pdf
 70eSession(2015)

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7652649/zambia.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7653516/zambia-21st.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7653909/zambia-26th.pdf
 71e Session(2016)

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/7661183/zambia.pdf

 72e Session(2017)

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16152607/zambia.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16154129/statement-by-zambia.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16154178/zambia.pdf
 73e Session(2018)

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/19409919/statement-by-zambia.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/20304333/zambia.pdf

http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/20304998/zambia-cluster-4.pdf