Bahamas

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 31 July 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 March 1999. The Bahamas has never used, produced, imported, exported, or stockpiled antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. The Bahamas has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty. The Bahamas last submitted a Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report in 2009.

The Bahamas did not attend any Mine Ban Treaty meetings in 2011 or the first half of 2012.

The Bahamas is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The Bahamas did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention. It has never made a statement on the issue or attended a meeting on cluster munitions.

The Bahamas has voted in favor of a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions condemning Syria’s cluster munition use, including Resolution 68/182 on 18 December 2013, which expressed “outrage” at “continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights…including those involving the use of…cluster munitions.”[1]

The Bahamas is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It has not joined the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

The Bahamas is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.