Policy

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 23 September 2009 and ratified on 29 October 2010, becoming a State Party on 1 April 2011.

In April 2012, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines reported that national implementation measures were “pending.”[1]

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report on 29 April 2012.[2] As of 1 June 2014, it had yet to provide the annual updated reports due by 30 April 2013 and 30 April 2014.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention in 2008, but signed the convention on 23 September 2009. The only participation by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in a meeting on cluster munitions was in September 2009, when it attended a regional conference on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile. It has not attended any meetings of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, such as the Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, Zambia in September 2013 or the regional workshop on cluster munitions held in Santiago, Chile in December 2013.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has not made a statement on Syria’s use of cluster munitions.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has not yet declared 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 need for retention of cluster munitions and submunitions for training and development purposes.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also a party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

In 2012, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines declared that it does not stockpile cluster munitions and has no contaminated areas.[3]