Conventions and Treaties

LIST OF TREATIES

Warfare and Disarmament

Note: An asterisk indicates that a treaty has either expired, been terminated, has been superseded by a subsequent agreement or has been amended.
(Updated on 5 April 2023)

# Treaty/ Convention/ Agreement Date and place of adoption Date of Signature Ratification(R)/ Accession (a)/ Acceptance(A)/ Approval (Ap)/ Participation(P)/ Succession(S)
149 Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) 1 July 1968,Washington, London & Moscow 9-Nov-1968 7-Apr-1970
150 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II, and III) 10 Oct 1980,Geneva 7-Sep-2000 (a)
151 Additional Protocol to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (Protocol IV, entitled 13 Oct 1995, Vienna 7-Sep-2000 (P)
152 Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-traps and Other Devices as amended on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996) annexed to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects 3 May 1996, Geneva 7-Sep-2000 (P)
153 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 3 Sep 1992, Geneva 4-Oct-1993 31-May-1994
154 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) 10 Sep 1996,New York 1-Oct-1997 7-Sep-2000 (R)
155 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 18 Sep 1997,Oslo 1-Oct-1998 7-Sep-2000
156 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in war of Asphyxiating Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare 17 June 1925, Geneva 6-Jan-1967 (a)
157 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and Other Destruction 10 Apr 1972, London, Moscow & Washington 1-Jul-1993
158 Convention on Cluster Munitions Dublin, 30 May 2008 27-Sep-2019 (a)
159 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons New York, 7 Jul 2017 26-Sep-2019 26-Sep-2019
160 United Nations Arms Trade Treaty New York, 2 Apr 2013 27-Sep-2019 (a)

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