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Barbados
Nuclear-weapon-free state
Has signed the TPNW
Has not yet ratified the TPNW
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SIGNED
22 September 2022 |
RATIFIED
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IN FORCE
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Status
Barbados has signed but not yet ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Signature
Jerome Xavier Walcott, the then-minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade of Barbados, signed the TPNW at a high-level ceremony in New York on 22 September 2022.
Jerome Walcott, the then-minister of foreign affairs of Barbados, signs the TPNW in 2022. Photo: Darren Ornitz
Universalisation
Barbados 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”.
Meetings of states parties
Barbados observed the second meeting of states parties to the TPNW in 2023.
TPNW negotiations
Barbados participated in the negotiation of the TPNW at the United Nations in New York in 2017 but was absent for the vote on its adoption.
In 2016, Barbados 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
Barbados 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.
Further information
Nuclear-weapon-free state
Has signed the TPNW
Has not yet ratified the TPNW
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SIGNED
22 September 2022 |
RATIFIED
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IN FORCE
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Status
Barbados has signed but not yet ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Signature
Jerome Xavier Walcott, the then-minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade of Barbados, signed the TPNW at a high-level ceremony in New York on 22 September 2022.
Jerome Walcott, the then-minister of foreign affairs of Barbados, signs the TPNW in 2022. Photo: Darren Ornitz
Universalisation
Barbados 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”.
Meetings of states parties
Barbados observed the second meeting of states parties to the TPNW in 2023.
TPNW negotiations
Barbados participated in the negotiation of the TPNW at the United Nations in New York in 2017 but was absent for the vote on its adoption.
In 2016, Barbados 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
Barbados 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.
Further information
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