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Eswatini
Nuclear-weapon-free state
Has not yet joined the TPNW
Status
Eswatini has not yet signed or ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
National position
Eswatini 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 2019, Eswatini welcomed the “historical adoption” of this “landmark treaty”, stressing that it complements and strengthens other elements of the nuclear non-proliferation regime. In 2018, it announced that it was involved in internal processes to become a TPNW state party.
Representatives of ICAN, the Red Cross, and Eswatini meet in New York in 2022 to discuss the TPNW.
TPNW negotiations
Eswatini 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, Eswatini co-sponsored 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
Eswatini 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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Nuclear-weapon-free state
Has not yet joined the TPNW
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Status
Eswatini has not yet signed or ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
National position
Eswatini 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 2019, Eswatini welcomed the “historical adoption” of this “landmark treaty”, stressing that it complements and strengthens other elements of the nuclear non-proliferation regime. In 2018, it announced that it was involved in internal processes to become a TPNW state party.
Representatives of ICAN, the Red Cross, and Eswatini meet in New York in 2022 to discuss the TPNW.
TPNW negotiations
Eswatini 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, Eswatini co-sponsored 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
Eswatini 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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