Commitment to the Convention on Cluster Munitions

Policy

Grenada acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 29 June 2011, becoming the first country in the world to accede to the convention.[1] The convention entered into force for Grenada on 1 December 2011.

Grenada has reported that the convention’s adoption into domestic law is “ongoing.”[2]

Grenada submitted its initial Convention on Cluster Munitions Article 7 report on 30 April 2012 and an annual updated report on 30 April 2013 for calendar year 2012. As of 7 May 2014, Grenada had yet to provide its annual updated report due by 30 April 2014.

Grenada participated in a regional meeting of the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions (Quito, Ecuador in November 2008), but did not engage in any of the international preparatory conferences or the formal negotiations of the convention. It participated in a regional conference on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in September 2009.

The first international meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions that Grenada attended was the Second Meeting of States Parties in Beirut, Lebanon in September 2011 followed by the Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, Zambia in September 2013, where it made a statement.[3] Grenada did not attend intersessional meetings held in Geneva in April 2014. Grenada participated in a regional workshop on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in December 2013, where its representative gave a regional overview on the status of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[4] The workshop issued a declaration urging the “early establishment” of a cluster munitions-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean.[5]

Grenada has voted in favor of UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions condemning Syria’s cluster munition use, including 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.”[6]

Grenada 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 foreign stockpiling of cluster munitions, the prohibition on investment in production of cluster munitions, and the retention of cluster munitions and submunitions for training and development purposes.

Grenada is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Grenada stated “N/A” or not applicable in the Article 7 report forms on production and stockpiling, thereby confirming that it has not used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions. United States (US) Navy aircraft dropped Mk-20 Rockeye cluster bombs on Grenada during the invasion of Grenada in October–November 1983.[7] In 2012, Grenada announced that a survey had found no contamination of the areas where cluster munitions were used by the US during the invasion.[8]