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Mali
Nuclear-weapon-free state
Has not yet joined the TPNW
Status
Mali has not yet signed or ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
National position
Mali has promoted universal adherence to the TPNW, including by voting in favour of an annual UN General Assembly resolution since 2020 that calls upon all states to sign, ratify, or accede to the treaty “at the earliest possible date”. In 2018 and 2019, it abstained from voting on the resolution.
Officials from the ministry of foreign affairs of Mali and representatives of the Timbuktu Centre Think Thank meet in 2022 to discuss the TPNW. Photo: Timbuktu Centre
Mali addresses a regional seminar on the universalisation of the TPNW in Pretoria, South Africa, in 2023. Photo: ICAN
TPNW negotiations
Mali did not formally participate in the negotiation of the TPNW at the United Nations in New York in 2017 and thus did not vote on its adoption.
In 2016, Mali abstained from voting on 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
Mali 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
Mali has not yet signed or ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
National position
Mali has promoted universal adherence to the TPNW, including by voting in favour of an annual UN General Assembly resolution since 2020 that calls upon all states to sign, ratify, or accede to the treaty “at the earliest possible date”. In 2018 and 2019, it abstained from voting on the resolution.
Officials from the ministry of foreign affairs of Mali and representatives of the Timbuktu Centre Think Thank meet in 2022 to discuss the TPNW. Photo: Timbuktu Centre
Mali addresses a regional seminar on the universalisation of the TPNW in Pretoria, South Africa, in 2023. Photo: ICAN
TPNW negotiations
Mali did not formally participate in the negotiation of the TPNW at the United Nations in New York in 2017 and thus did not vote on its adoption.
In 2016, Mali abstained from voting on 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
Mali 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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