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Hiroshima for Global Peace

Hiroshima Report 202427. Saudi Arabia ■Non-Nuclear-Weapon State

Nuclear Disarmament 13 Points Full Points 48    27.1 %
Change compared to the Hiroshima Report 2023 -2.5 
Saudi Arabia voted for most of the UNGA Resolutions regarding nuclear disarmament related to the humanitarian dimensions as well as legal prohibition of nuclear weapons. However, it is hardly active in promoting nuclear disarmament and has not signed the TPNW or the CTBT. Saudi Arabia abstained from both the respective UNGA resolutions on the CTBT and an FMCT.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation 33 Points Full Points 61  54.1 %
Change compared to the Hiroshima Report 2023 0
Saudi Arabia stated that its first research reactor is nearing completion and that it has decided to abandon the Small Quantity Protocol (SQP) and fully implement the IAEA Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement. It has not signed the IAEA Additional Protocol. Nor it establish a sufficient export control system. Saudi Arabia opposes renouncing a right to conduct enrichment and reprocessing activities in negotiations on a Saudi-U.S. civil nuclear cooperation agreement. It has occasionally suggested that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia would do so as well.
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