Policy

The Kyrgyz Republic has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Kyrgyzstan last commented on the matter in April 2010, when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Monitor that adherence to the convention was “under consideration.”[1]

Kyrgyzstan participated in the Oslo Process that led to the creation of the convention and joined in the consensus adoption of the convention text in Dublin in May 2008, but did not attend the Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008.[2]

Despite the lack of accession, Kyrgyzstan has engaged in the Convention on Cluster Munitions since 2012. It participated as an observer in the convention’s Third Meeting of States Parties in Oslo in September 2012 and the Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka in September 2013, but did not make any statements at the meetings. Kyrgyzstan attended the convention’s intersessional meetings in Geneva in April 2013, but not those held in April 2014.

Kyrgyzstan is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty or the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

In 2010, Kyrgyzstan informed the Monitor that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[3]