Bahamas

Last Updated: 12 August 2014

Cluster Munition Ban Policy

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.

 



[1]Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,” UNGA Resolution 68/182, 18 December 2013. The Bahamas voted in support of a similar resolution on 15 May 2013.