Membership

As originally constituted, the Conference on Disarmament had 40 members. It was subsequently expanded several times and now counts 65 members. The current membership is as follows:

Algeria	Kenya
Argentina	Malaysia
Australia	Mexico
Austria	Mongolia
Bangladesh	Morocco
Belarus	Myanmar
Belgium	Netherlands
Brazil	New Zealand
Bulgaria	Nigeria
Cameroon	Norway
Canada	Pakistan
Chile	Peru
China	Poland
Colombia	Republic of Korea
Cuba	Romania
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Russian Federation
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Senegal
Ecuador	Slovakia
Egypt	South Africa
Ethiopia	Spain
Finland	Sri Lanka
France	Sweden
Germany	Switzerland
Hungary	Syrian Arab Republic
India	Tunisia
Indonesia	Türkiye
Iran, Islamic Republic of	Ukraine
Iraq	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Ireland	United States of America
Israel	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Italy	Viet Nam
Japan	Zimbabwe
Kazakhstan

Regional Groups

The Member States of the Conference on Disarmament are organised into a number of informal regional groups to facilitate their preparation for, and representation in the plenary meetings of the Conference:

Eastern European Group

• Belarus
• Bulgaria
• Kazakhstan
• Romania
• Russian Federation
• Ukraine

Group of 21

• Algeria
• Bangladesh
• Brazil
• Cameroon
• Chile
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• Iraq
• Kenya
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• Mongolia
• Morocco
• Myanmar
• Nigeria
• Pakistan
• Peru
• Senegal
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Tunisia
• Venezuela
• Viet Nam
• Zimbabwe

Group of One

• China

Western European and Others Group

• Argentina
• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Hungary
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Poland
• Republic of Korea
• Slovakia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Türkyie
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• United States of America

Requests for membership

Since 1982, requests for membership of the Conference have been received from the below 28 non-member States:

Requests for membership

• Greece (1984)
• Croatia (1992)
• Kuwait (1992)
• Portugal (1993)
• Slovenia (1993)
• Czechia (1993)
• Denmark (1994)
• North Macedonia (1996)
• Cyprus (1996)
• Lithuania (1996)
• Ghana (1997)
• Luxembourg (1997)
• Uruguay (1997)
• Philippines (1997)
• Azerbaijan (1998)
• Libya (1998)
• Armenia (1998)
• Thailand (1998)
• Georgia (1998)
• Jordan (1999)
• Costa Rica (2001)
• Estonia (2001)
• Latvia (2004)
• Malta (2005)
• Serbia (2009)
• Qatar (2012)
• Republic of Moldova (2015)
• Saudi Arabia (2021)

Non-member (observer) States

As per the Rules of Procedure, the CD invites on an annual basis other UN Member States that have expressed a desire to participate in the CD's substantive discussions, to take part in its work as non-Member State. The list of non-member States for the current CD session can be found here.