The country, which has a population of only 11,600 people, joins 174 other nations in adopting the Convention, introduced in October 2005 to fight against doping in sport.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) treaty, which is backed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), allows Governments to align their domestic policies with the WADA Code.

This includes facilitating doping controls and national testing programmes through to the establishment of codes of conduct for professions relating to sport and anti-doping as well as funding education and research into drugs in sport.

Since the adoption of the Convention in 2005, 98 per cent of the world's population has committed to combating drugs in all forms of sport.

"One of the great success stories within the anti-doping community since the formation of WADA has been the creation of the International Convention against Doping in Sport, which has assisted us no end in our efforts to bring consistency and harmonisation to anti-doping policy right across the world," said WADA President John Fahey.

"We are edging ever closer to complete global ratification of this Convention, and we will be working hard in the coming months and years to encourage those nations that have not yet signed the convention to do so."

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