Fiji
Mine Ban Policy
The Republic of the Fiji Islands signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 10 June 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 March 1999. Fiji has never used, produced, imported, exported, or stockpiled antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. Fiji has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty. Fiji submitted its second Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report on 21 August 2002 and has not provided subsequent annual reports.
Fiji did not attend any Mine Ban Treaty meetings in 2010 or the first half of 2011.
Fiji is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
Policy
The Republic of the Fiji Islands signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008, ratified on 28 May 2010, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 November 2010.
Fiji is not known to have undertaken national implementation legislation or other implementation measures.[1]
As of 14 May 2014, Fiji had not yet submitted its first Convention on Cluster Munitions Article 7 report, originally due by 30 April 2011.
Fiji joined the Oslo Process in February 2008 and adopted the Convention on Cluster Munitions at the end of negotiations in Dublin on 30 May 2008.[2] Fiji has attended one meeting of the convention since 2008: the Second Meeting of States Parties in Beirut, Lebanon in September 2011.
Fiji has not yet provided its views on certain important issues related to interpretation and implementation of the convention, including the prohibition on transit, the prohibition on assistance during joint military operations with states not party that may use cluster munitions, the prohibition on investment in production of cluster munitions, and the prohibition on foreign stockpiling of cluster munitions. During the Dublin negotiations of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Fiji supported the retention of cluster munitions for training purposes.[3]
Fiji is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not a party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Fiji has stated several times that it does not use, produce, or stockpile cluster munitions.[4]
[1] The Parliament of Fiji was dissolved following a coup d'état in December 2006.
[2] For more details on Fiji’s past policy and practice see Human Rights Watch and Landmine Action, Banning Cluster Munitions: Government Policy and Practice (Ottawa: Mines Action Canada, May 2009), p. 73.
[3] Summary Record of the Committee of the Whole, First Session: 19 May 2008, Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions, CCM/CW/SR/1, 18 June 2008.
[4] The Minister for Foreign Affairs Ratu Inoke Kubuabola stated this in May 2010. “Fiji’s administration approves Ratification Of The ‘2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions,’” Pacific Islands News Association, 24 May 2010. See also statement by Amb. Seremaia Tiunausori Cavuilati, Permanent Mission of Fiji to the EU, Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference, Oslo, 3 December 2008; and Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions, 28 May 2008. Notes by the CMC.