Basel Convention | In effect since 3rd August, 1998 |
Convention on Biological Diversity | Ratified 5th July, 1994 |
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety | Ratified 13th July 2004 |
Cartagena Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment | Ratified 7th September 1990 |
International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage | Acceded August 2001 |
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change | Ratified 21st March, 1994 |
Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change | Ratified 5th January, 2005 |
Cotonou Agreement (Replaced the Lome Convention) | Ratified 26th July, 2002 |
UN Convention to Combat Desertification | Ratified 28th November, 1997 |
UN Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) | Ratified 30th June, 1995 |
Third UN Convention of Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) | Ratified 3rd September, 1991 |
Convention on the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims Relating to the Arrest of Sea Going Ships | Acceded August, 2001 |
Treaty for the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons | Acceded 3rd August, 1983 |
International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation | Acceded August 2001 |
International Plant Protection Convention | Ratified April 1979 |
UN Convention on the Prohibition and Use of, Stockpiling Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and their Destruction. | Ratified 26th March, 1999 |
UN Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and (weapons of mass destruction)their Destruction. (Chemical Weapons Convention) | Ratified 12th February, 2001 |
Geneva Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques | Ratified 9th November, 1992 |
Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America | Ratified 26th April 1993 |
UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage | Ratified 4th July, 1994 |
International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling | Acceded 18th June 1992 |
Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Maritime Navigation | Acceded August 2001 |
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea | Acceded 2000 |
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) | Acceded 3rd August 2003 |
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
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Ratified 30th March, 1993 Ratified 20th June, 1993 Ratified 30th March, 1993 Ratified 10, March, 2006 |
Rotterdam Convention on the prior informed consent procedure for certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade | Acceded January 2006 |