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Note by Department of Foreign Affairs

Canberra, [January] 1971

Signatories to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Up to 5th March, 1970, the day the treaty came into force, the following 97 governments had signed it in one or more capitals on the date indicated. The list is complete since, with entry into force of the treaty, it is no longer open to countries to sign it. They can now only accede.

United Kingdom 1 July 1968 Laos
U.S.S.R. Lebanon
U.S.A. Liberia
Afghanistan Malaysia
Austria Mauritius
Barbados Mongolia
Bolivia Morocco
Botswana Nepal
Bulgaria New Zealand
Ceylon Nicaragua
Chad Nigeria  
China, Republic of Norway
Colombia Panama
Costa Rica Paraguay
Cyprus Peru
Czechoslovakia Philippines
Dahomey Poland
Denmark Roumania
Dominican Republic San Marino
El Salvador Senegal
Finland Somalia
Ghana Syria
Greece Togo
Haiti Tunisia
Honduras United Arab Republic
Hungary Uruguay
Iceland Venezuela
Iran Vietnam, Republic of
Iraq Ecuador 9 July 1968
Ireland Lesotho  
Ivory Coast Jordan 10 July 1968
Kenya Yugoslavia
Korea, Republic of Cameroon 17 July 1968
Libya 18 July 1968 Southern Yemen 14 Nov 1968
Congo (Kinshasa) 22 July 1968 Upper Volta 25 Nov 1968
Canada 23 July 1968 Sudan 24 Dec 1968
Mexico 26 July 1968 Italy 28 Jan 1969
Guatemala Turkey
Luxembourg 14 Aug 1968 Jamaica 14 Apr 1969
Kuwait 15 Aug 1968 Malta 17 Apr 1969
Sweden 19 Aug 1968 Swaziland 24 June 1969
Belgium 20 Aug 1968 Mali 14 July 1969
Netherlands Switzerland 27 Now 1969
Trinidad & Tobago 22 Aug 1968 Germany, Federal Republic of 28 Nov 1969
Malagasy Republic Japan 3 Feb 1970
The Gambia 5 Sep 1968 Singapore 5 Feb 1970
Ethiopia Australia 27 Feb 1970
Maldive Islands 11 Sep 1968    
Yemen 23 Sep 1968 Indonesia 2 Mar 1970

(The East German authorities also signed the treaty in Moscow on 1st July, 1968)

[NAA: A1838, 919/10/5 part 33]