ICSANT 05-07
International Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism
The International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (ICSANT) is an international Convention approved by the General Assembly on April 13, 2005. The Convention opened for signature on September 14, 2005 and with the 22nd ratification of Bangladesh it entered into force on 7 July 2007. The ICSANT joined the 12 previously existing universal anti-terrorism conventions, strengthening the international legal framework in connection with terrorist acts and further promoting the rule of law. The convention includes a wider definition on materials and facilities covering military and peaceful applications. It also includes the criminalization of planning, threatening or carrying out acts of nuclear terrorism as well as guidelines for extradition and other measures of punishment. The Convention imposes an obligation on State Parties to establish the offences within the scope of the Convention as criminal offences under their national laws and to make these offences punishable by penalties. Further, the Convention imposes the obligation to establish jurisdiction, territorial as well as extra-territorial.