St. Kitts and Nevis
Mine Ban Policy
Saint Kitts and Nevis signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 2 December 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 June 1999. Saint Kitts and Nevis 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. Saint Kitts and Nevis submitted its initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report on 27 November 1999, which covered 1 March to 27 November 1999, but has not submitted subsequent annual reports.
Saint Kitts and Nevis did not attend any Mine Ban Treaty meetings in 2010 or the first half of 2011. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
Commitment to the Convention on Cluster Munitions
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Convention on Cluster Munitions status |
State Party |
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Participation in Convention on Cluster Munitions meetings |
Attended Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, in September 2013 and a regional workshop in Santiago, Chile in December 2013 |
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Key developments |
Acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 13 September 2013 and became a State Party on 1 March 2014 |
Policy
Saint Kitts and Nevis acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 13 September 2013 and became a State Party on 1 March 2014.
It is not known if specific national legislation is planned to implement the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Saint Kitts and Nevis’ initial Article 7 report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions is due by 28 August 2014.
Saint Kitts and Nevis attended one meeting of the Oslo Process that created the convention (Vienna in December 2007) and one regional meeting (Mexico City in April 2008). From 2009 on, officials from the Saint Kitts and Nevis including the foreign minister indicated on several occasions that the government was actively considering its accession to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[1] Saint Kitts and Nevis deposited its instrument of accession on the final day of the Convention on Cluster Munitions Fourth Meeting of State Parties in September 2013. A representative from Saint Kitts and Nevis participated in the meeting held in Lusaka, Zambia, but did not make any statement.[2]
Saint Kitts and Nevis did not attend intersessional meetings of the convention in Geneva in April 2014, but it participated in a regional workshop on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in December 2013, which issued a declaration urging the “early establishment” of a cluster munitions-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean.[3]
Saint Kitts and Nevis has not made a statement expressing concern at Syria’s use of cluster munitions.
Saint Kitts and Nevis is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Saint Kitts and Nevis is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
[1] See, for example, letter to Sarah Blakemore, Director, CMC, from Patrice Nisbett, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saint Christopher and Nevis, 28 April 2013; and statement of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Convention on Cluster Munitions Third Meeting of States Parties, Oslo, 12 September 2012.
[2] See CMC, “Saint Kitts and Nevis Joins Global Cluster Bomb Ban,” 14 September 2013.
[3] “Santiago Declaration: Toward the early establishment of a Cluster Munitions Free Zone in Latin America and the Caribbean,” presented to the Conference by Christian Guillermet, Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the UN in Geneva, in Santiago, 13 December 2013.