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Tanzania
Nuclear-weapon-free state
Has signed the TPNW
Has not yet ratified the TPNW
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SIGNED
26 September 2019 |
RATIFIED
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Status
Tanzania has signed but not yet ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Signature
Palamagamba Kabudi, the minister of foreign affairs of Tanzania, signed the TPNW at a high-level ceremony in New York on 26 September 2019.
He remarked that “the treaty is important, not only because it complements existing international instruments on nuclear weapons, but also because it places those weapons on the same legal footing as other weapons of mass destruction”.
Tanzania announced in 2019 that its domestic process for ratifying the TPNW is under way. It reiterated this in 2021.
Palamagamba Kabudi, the minister of foreign affairs of Tanzania, signs the TPNW in 2019. Photo: ICAN
Universalisation
Tanzania has promoted universal adherence to the TPNW, including by co-sponsoring and consistently voting in favour of an annual UN General Assembly resolution since 2018 that calls upon all states to sign, ratify, or accede to the treaty “at the earliest possible date”.
In a statement to the UN General Assembly in 2021, Tanzania welcomed the TPNW’s entry into force, describing it as “a big milestone to see in human history”. It encouraged all UN members that have not yet joined the TPNW “to find a way to do so”.
Meetings of states parties
Tanzania attended as an observer the first meeting of states parties to the TPNW, held in Vienna in June 2022.
TPNW negotiations
Tanzania participated in the negotiation of the TPNW at the United Nations in New York in 2017 and was among 122 states that voted in favour of its adoption.
In its opening statement to the negotiating conference, Tanzania said that the use of nuclear technology “in weapon systems remains the worst nightmare to all of us” and poses “a great security risk to the entire humanity”.
In September 2017, Augustine Mahiga, the then-minister of foreign affairs of Tanzania, said: “Tanzania commends the recent adoption of the nuclear ban treaty, which puts nuclear weapons on the same legal ground as other weapons of mass destruction.” He added that “[w]e should all support this treaty”.
In 2016, Tanzania voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution that established the formal mandate for states to commence negotiations on “a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination”.
Before the negotiations
Tanzania was among 127 states that endorsed a “humanitarian pledge” in 2015–16 to cooperate “in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit, and eliminate nuclear weapons”. The pledge was instrumental in building momentum and support for convening the TPNW negotiations.
Nuclear-weapon-free state
Has signed the TPNW
Has not yet ratified the TPNW
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SIGNED
26 September 2019 |
RATIFIED
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IN FORCE
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Status
Tanzania has signed but not yet ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Signature
Palamagamba Kabudi, the minister of foreign affairs of Tanzania, signed the TPNW at a high-level ceremony in New York on 26 September 2019.
He remarked that “the treaty is important, not only because it complements existing international instruments on nuclear weapons, but also because it places those weapons on the same legal footing as other weapons of mass destruction”.
Tanzania announced in 2019 that its domestic process for ratifying the TPNW is under way. It reiterated this in 2021.
Palamagamba Kabudi, the minister of foreign affairs of Tanzania, signs the TPNW in 2019. Photo: ICAN
Universalisation
Tanzania has promoted universal adherence to the TPNW, including by co-sponsoring and consistently voting in favour of an annual UN General Assembly resolution since 2018 that calls upon all states to sign, ratify, or accede to the treaty “at the earliest possible date”.
In a statement to the UN General Assembly in 2021, Tanzania welcomed the TPNW’s entry into force, describing it as “a big milestone to see in human history”. It encouraged all UN members that have not yet joined the TPNW “to find a way to do so”.
Meetings of states parties
Tanzania attended as an observer the first meeting of states parties to the TPNW, held in Vienna in June 2022.
TPNW negotiations
Tanzania participated in the negotiation of the TPNW at the United Nations in New York in 2017 and was among 122 states that voted in favour of its adoption.
In its opening statement to the negotiating conference, Tanzania said that the use of nuclear technology “in weapon systems remains the worst nightmare to all of us” and poses “a great security risk to the entire humanity”.
In September 2017, Augustine Mahiga, the then-minister of foreign affairs of Tanzania, said: “Tanzania commends the recent adoption of the nuclear ban treaty, which puts nuclear weapons on the same legal ground as other weapons of mass destruction.” He added that “[w]e should all support this treaty”.
In 2016, Tanzania voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution that established the formal mandate for states to commence negotiations on “a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination”.
Before the negotiations
Tanzania was among 127 states that endorsed a “humanitarian pledge” in 2015–16 to cooperate “in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit, and eliminate nuclear weapons”. The pledge was instrumental in building momentum and support for convening the TPNW negotiations.
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