Dominica

The Commonwealth of Dominica signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 26 March 1999, becoming a State Party on 1 September 1999. Dominica has never used, produced, imported, exported, or stockpiled antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. Dominica has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty. Dominica submitted its initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report in 2002 and its fifth report in 2008, but has not provided annual updates since.

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

Dominica is not a party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

The Commonwealth of Dominica has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Dominica did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention and it has never attended a meeting on cluster munitions. In 2010, a Ministry of Finance official informed the Monitor, “I have been directed to inform that the Government of Dominica has no interest in being a party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.”[1]

Dominica voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution on 18 December 2013 that expressed “outrage” at Syria’s “continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights…including those involving the use of…cluster munitions.”[2]

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

Dominica confirmed in 2010 that it has not used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[3]