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Cameroon
Nuclear-weapon-free state
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Summary
Cameroon has not yet signed or ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
National position
Cameroon voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution in 2018 that welcomed the adoption of the treaty and called upon “all states that have not yet done so to sign, ratify, accept, approve, or accede to the treaty at the earliest possible date”. It did not participate in votes on the same resolution in 2019 and 2020.
A press conference is held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in April 2021 to encourage the government to sign and ratify the treaty. Photo: WILPF Cameroon
Treaty negotiations
Cameroon participated in the negotiation of the treaty at the United Nations in New York in 2017 but was absent for the vote on its adoption.
In 2016, Cameroon voted in the first committee of the UN General Assembly in favour of a draft resolution that ultimately 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
Prior to the adoption of the treaty in 2017, nuclear weapons were the only weapons of mass destruction not subject to a comprehensive, globally applicable treaty-based prohibition. Cameroon supported calls in the UN General Assembly to fill this “legal gap”.
Nuclear-weapon-free state
Has not yet joined the TPNW
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Summary
Cameroon has not yet signed or ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
National position
Cameroon voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution in 2018 that welcomed the adoption of the treaty and called upon “all states that have not yet done so to sign, ratify, accept, approve, or accede to the treaty at the earliest possible date”. It did not participate in votes on the same resolution in 2019 and 2020.
A press conference is held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in April 2021 to encourage the government to sign and ratify the treaty. Photo: WILPF Cameroon
Treaty negotiations
Cameroon participated in the negotiation of the treaty at the United Nations in New York in 2017 but was absent for the vote on its adoption.
In 2016, Cameroon voted in the first committee of the UN General Assembly in favour of a draft resolution that ultimately 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
Prior to the adoption of the treaty in 2017, nuclear weapons were the only weapons of mass destruction not subject to a comprehensive, globally applicable treaty-based prohibition. Cameroon supported calls in the UN General Assembly to fill this “legal gap”.
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Cameroon Youths and Students Forum for Peace (CAMYOSFOP)