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Cluster Munition Ban Policy
The Republic of Nepal has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Nepal has never made a public statement on its policy on joining the convention. 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.[1]
Nepal participated in two meetings of the Oslo Process that created the convention (Vienna in December 2007 and Wellington in February 2008), but did not participate in Dublin negotiations in May 2008 or the Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008, even as an observer. Nepal has shown limited interest in the convention since 2008. It was invited to, but did not attend, the First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Vientiane, Lao PDR in November 2010.
Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL) has undertaken several activities to promote the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[2]
Nepal is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty or the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
In June 2010, Nepal confirmed that it does not possess cluster munitions and has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[3]
[1] NCBL and CMC interview with Rakam Chemjong, Minister for Peace and Reconstruction, Cartagena, 3 December 2009.
[2] Ban Landmines Campaign held an event in Kathmandu to welcome the convention’s 1 August 2010 entry force that included presentations, drumming and traditional music, and the distribution of information on cluster munitions. CMC, “Entry into force of the Convention on Cluster Munitions Report: 1 August 2010,” November 2010, p. 23.
[3] Letter No. GE/2010/577 from Hari Pd. Odari, Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of Nepal to the UN in Geneva, 21 June 2010; and NCBL and CMC interview with Rakam Chemjong, Minister for Peace and Reconstruction, Cartagena, 3 December 2009.
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