Commitment to the Convention on Cluster Munitions

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.