OUTER SPACE TREATY
Date of Date of
Date 1 of Deposit 1 of Deposit 1 of
Country Signature Ratification Accession
Afghanistan 01/27/67 03/21/88
Antigua and Barbuda 01/01/81
Argentina 01/27/67 03/26/69
Australia 01/27/67 10/10/67
Austria 02/20/67 02/26/68
Bahamas, The 08/11/76
Bangladesh 01/17/86
Barbados 09/12/68
Belgium 01/27/67 03/30/73
Benin 06/19/86
Bolivia 01/27/67
Botswana 01/27/67
Brazil 01/30/67 03/05/69
Brunei 01/18/84
Bulgaria 01/27/67 03/28/67
Burkina Faso 03/03/67 06/18/68
Burma 05/22/67 03/18/70
Burundi 01/27/67
Byelorussian S.S.R.2 02/10/67 10/31/67
Cameroon 01/27/67
Canada 01/27/67 10/10/67
Central African Republic 01/27/67
Chile 01/27/67 10/08/81
China, People s
Republic of 12/30/83
China (Taiwan)4 01/27/67 07/24/70
Colombia 01/27/67
Cuba 06/03/77
Cyprus 01/27/67 07/05/72
Czechoslovakia 01/27/67 05/11/67
Denmark 01/27/67 10/10/67
Dominica 11/08/78
Dominican Republic 01/27/67 11/21/68
Ecuador 01/27/67 03/07/69
Egypt 01/27/67 10/10/67
El Salvador 01/27/67 01/15/69
Ethiopia 01/27/67
Fiji 07/14/72
Finland 01/27/67 07/12/67
France 09/25/67 08/05/70
Gambia, The 06/02/67
German Democratic
Republic 01/27/67 02/02/67
Germany, Federal
Republic of 01/27/67 02/10/71
Ghana 01/27/67
Greece 01/27/67 01/19/71
Grenada 02/07/74
Guinea-Bissau 08/20/76
Guyana 02/03/67
Haiti 01/27/67
Holy See 04/05/67
Honduras 01/27/67
Hungary 01/27/67 06/26/67
Iceland 01/27/67 02/05/68
India 03/03/67 01/18/82
Indonesia 01/27/67
Iran 01/27/67
Iraq 02/27/67 12/04/68
Ireland 01/27/67 07/17/68
Israel 01/27/67 02/18/77
Italy 01/27/67 05/04/72
Jamaica 06/29/67 08/06/70
Japan 01/27/67 10/10/67
Jordan 02/02/67
Kenya 01/19/84
Korea, Republic of 01/27/67 10/13/67
Kuwait 06/07/72
Laos 01/27/67 11/27/72
Lebanon 02/23/67 03/31/69
Lesotho 01/27/67
Libya 7/03/68
Luxembourg 01/27/67
Madagascar 08/22/68
Malaysia 02/20/67
Mali 06/11/68
Mauritius 04/07/69
Mexico 01/27/67 01/31/68
Mongolia 01/27/67 10/10/67
Morocco 12/21/67
Nepal 02/03/67 10/10/67
Netherlands 02/10/67 10/10/69
New Zealand 01/27/67 05/31/68
Nicaragua 01/27/67
Niger 02/01/67 04/17/67
Nigeria 11/14/67
Norway 02/03/67 07/01/69
Pakistan 09/12/67 04/08/68
Panama 01/27/67
Papua New Guinea 10/27/80
Peru 06/30/67 02/28/79
Philippines 01/27/67
Poland 01/27/67 01/30/68
Romania 01/27/67 04/09/68
Rwanda 01/27/67
Saint Christopher-Nevis 09/19/83
Saint Lucia 02/22/79
San Marino 04/21/67 10/29/68
Saudi Arabia 12/17/76
Seychelles 01/05/78
Sierra Leone 01/27/67 07/13/67
Singapore 09/10/76
Solomon Islands 07/07/78
Somalia 02/02/67
South Africa 03/01/67 09/30/68
Spain 11/27/68
Sri Lanka 03/10/69 11/18/86
Swaziland 10/22/68
Sweden 01/27/67 10/11/67
Switzerland 01/27/67 12/18/69
Syria 11/19/68
Thailand 01/27/67 09/05/68
Togo 01/27/67
Tonga 06/22/71
Trinidad and Tobago 07/24/67
Tunisia 01/27/67 03/28/68
Turkey 01/27/67 03/27/68
Uganda 04/24/68
Ukrainian S.S.R.2 02/10/67 10/31/67
Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics 01/27/67 10/10/67
United Kingdom 01/27/67 10/10/67
United States 01/27/67 10/10/67
Uruguay 01/27/67 08/31/70
Venezuela 01/27/67 03/03/70
Vietnam 06/20/80
Yemen, People s Democratic
Republic of (Aden) 06/01/79
Yugoslavia 01/27/67
Zaire 01/27/67
Zambia 08/20/73
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Total 3 91 62 36
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1 Dates given are the earliest dates on which countries signed the agreements or deposited
their ratifications or accessions -- whether in Washington, London, Moscow, or New York.
In the case of a country that was a dependent territory which became a party through
succession, the date given is the date on which the country gave notice that it would
continue to be bound by the terms of the agreement.
2 The United States regards the signature and ratification by the Byelorussian S.S.R. and
the Ukrainian S.S.R. as already included under the signature and ratification of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
3 This total does not include actions by the Byelorussian S.S.R. and the Ukrainian S.S.R.
(See footnote 2.)
4 Effective January 1, 1979, the United States recognized the Government of the People's
Republic of China as the sole government of China.