The Kingdom of Swaziland signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997 and ratified it on 22 December 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 June 1999. It has never used, produced, exported, or imported antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. It has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty. Swaziland submitted its second Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report on 11 May 2006, covering 31 January 2000 to 31 March 2005, but has not submitted subsequent annual reports.

Swaziland had a suspected hazardous area, the result of conflict spilling over from neighboring Mozambique, but technical survey did not find any antipersonnel mines. In November 2007, Swaziland announced it had fulfilled compliance with Article 5 almost two years before its 1 June 2009 treaty-mandated deadline.

Swaziland did not attend any Mine Ban Treaty meetings in 2010 or the first half of 2011.

Swaziland is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Commitment to the Convention on Cluster Munitions

Policy

Swaziland has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

In November 2010, Swaziland informed the convention’s First Meeting of States Parties that it supports the “aims and objectives” of the convention and has come to a decision to accede in the “not so distant future.” It said that national procedures to join the convention were “already at an advanced stage.”[1]

Swaziland participated in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions. It also joined in the consensus adoption of the convention text in Dublin in May 2008, but could not sign the convention in Oslo in December 2008 due to incorrect paperwork.[2] 

Swaziland has continued to engage in the work of the convention since 2008. It attended a regional conference on cluster munitions held in Pretoria, South Africa in March 2010 and  participated as an observer in the First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Vientiane, Lao PDR in November 2010. Swaziland did not attend the convention’s intersessional meetings held in Geneva in June 2011.

Swaziland is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It has not joined the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Swaziland is not believed to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.