Policy

The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Nepal has never made a public statement explaining its position on joining the ban convention. In October 2013, a government representative informed the CMC that Nepal is interested in the convention, but has other priorities.[1] Previously, in December 2009, the Minister of Peace and Reconstruction told the CMC that there are no issues preventing the government from acceding to the convention.[2]

Nepal participated in two meetings of the Oslo Process that created the convention (Vienna in December 2007 and Wellington in February 2008) but it did not attend the Dublin negotiations in May 2008.

Nepal did not participate in any meetings of the Convention on Cluster Munitions until September 2013, when it attended the Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, Zambia as an observer. It did not make any statements at the meeting.

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

The Nepal Campaign to Ban Landmines (NCBL) is the national partner of the CMC. In August 2013, NCBL organized a symposium on cluster munitions that was attended by a number of government officials.[3] On 4 April 2014, a NCBL delegation that included landmine survivors met with various government ministries to discuss a memorandum urging the government of Nepal to join the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the Mine Ban Treaty.[4]

Government officials have met with Convention on Cluster Munitions representatives to discuss the Convention on Cluster Munitions on several occasions, most recently in Geneva in April 2014.[5]

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Nepal has stated that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[6]