Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (Outer Space Treaty)

Full Text: http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/space1.html

Parties agree that their activities in space will be for the benefit of all humanity. The treaty includes the specification that parties shall not place in orbit around the earth any object carrying nuclear weapons or any other kind of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner.

Opened for signature January 27, 1967, Entered into force, October 10, 1967.

Parties with year of ratification: Afghanistan (1988), Antigua and Barbuda (1981), Argentina (1969), Australia (1967), Austria (1968), Bahamas (1976), Bangladesh (1986), Barbados (1968), Belgium (1973), Benin (1986), Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil (1969), Brunei (1984), Bulgaria (1967), Burkina Faso (1968), Burma (1970), Burundi, Belarus (1967), Cameroon, Canada (1967), Central African Republic, Chile (1981), China (1983), Taiwan (1970), Colombia, Cuba (1977), Cyprus (1972), Czech Republic (1967), Denmark (1967), Dominica (1978), Dominican Republic (1968), Ecuador (1969), Egypt (1967), El Salvador (1969), Ethiopia, Fiji (1972), Finland (1967), France (1970), Gambia, Germany (East: 1967; West: 1971), Ghana, Greece (1971), Grenada (1974), Guinea-Bissau (1976), Guyana. Haiti (1967), Holy See, Honduras , Hungary (1967), Iceland (1968), India (1982), Indonesia, Iran, Iraq (1968), Ireland (1968), Israel (1977), Italy (1972), Jamaica (1970), Japan (1967), Jordan, Kenya (1984), South Korea (1967), Kuwait (1972), Laos (1972), Lebanon (1969), Lesotho, Libya (1968), Luxembourg, Madagascar (1968), Malaysia, Mali (1968), Mauritius (1969), Mexico (1968), Mongolia (1967), Morocco (1967), Nepal (1967), Netherlands (1969), New Zealand (1968), Nicaragua, Niger (1967), Nigeria (1967), Norway (1969), Pakistan (1968), Panama, Papua New Guinea (1980), Peru (1979), Philippines, Poland (1968), Romania (1968), Rwanda, Saint Christopher-Nevis (1983), Saint Lucia (1979), San Marino (1968), Saudi Arabia (1976), Seychelles (1978), Sierra Leone (1967), Singapore (1976), Slovak Republic (1967), Solomon Islands (1978), Somalia, South Africa (1968), Spain (1968), Sri Lanka (1986), Swaziland (1968), Sweden (1967), Switzerland (1969), Syria (1968), Thailand (1968), Togo, Tonga (1971), Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia (1968), Turkey (1968), Uganda (1968), Ukraine (1967), USSR (1967), United Kingdom (1967), United States (1967), Uruguay (1970), Venezuela (1970), Vietnam (1980), Yemen (PDR 1979), Yugoslavia , Zaire, Zambia (1973)