Barbados

Barbados signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 26 January 1999, becoming a State Party on 1 July 1999. Barbados has never used, produced, imported, exported, or stockpiled antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. Barbados has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty. Barbados submitted its initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report on 12 May 2003, but has not provided subsequent annual reports.

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

Barbados is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

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

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

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

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