Malaysia signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 22 April 1999, becoming a State Party on 1 October 2009. Malaysia has never used, produced, or exported antipersonnel mines. It previously imported and stockpiled antipersonnel mines. Legislation to enforce the antipersonnel mine prohibition domestically took effect on 25 June 2000. Malaysia submitted its sixth Article 7 transparency report on 3 May 2006. Malaysia has submitted subsequent annual reports, but they have consisted only of a cover page. Malaysia completed destruction of its stockpile of 94,721 mines on 23 January 2001, well in advance of its October 2003 treaty-mandated deadline. Malaysia chose not to retain any mines for training or development purposes.

Malaysia served as co-rapporteur and then co-chair of the Standing Committee on Stockpile Destruction from 1999–2001.

Malaysia is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Policy

Malaysia has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. In March 2010, a Ministry of Defense spokesperson told Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor that Malaysia was in the process of formulating its policy toward the convention.[1]

Malaysia did not attend the first two diplomatic conferences of the Oslo Process in the first half of 2007, but participated in the international treaty preparatory conferences in Vienna in December 2007 and Wellington in February 2008. At the Wellington conference, it expressed support for a complete prohibition on cluster munitions without exceptions. It endorsed the Wellington Declaration, which committed states to negotiate a convention banning cluster munitions on the basis of the existing text. Malaysia participated in the formal negotiations in Dublin in May 2008. It was one of 107 states that adopted the convention text at the end of the negotiations, but was absent from the Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008.  

Malaysia subsequently attended the Special Event on the Convention on Cluster Munitions at the UN in New York in March 2009 to promote the convention. It also participated in the Regional Conference on the Promotion and Universalization of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Bali, Indonesia in November 2009.

Malaysia is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. Malaysia is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). It has occasionally attended as an observer the CCW deliberations on cluster munitions in recent years.

Malaysia is not believed to have used, produced, or exported cluster munitions. It is uncertain if Malaysia has a stockpile.[2] During a March 2010 mission to Malaysia by Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, officials would neither confirm nor deny the existence of a stockpile of cluster munitions.[3]

Malaysia possesses Brazilian-made Astros rocket launchers, but it is not known if this includes variants that contain submunition payloads.[4] It is also reported to possess the Hydra-70 air-to-surface unguided rocket system, but it is not known if the ammunition types available to it include the M261 Multi-Purpose Submunition Rocket.[5]