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Niger

Last Updated: 29 July 2011

Cluster Munition Ban Policy

Commitment to the Convention on Cluster Munitions

Convention on Cluster Munitions status

State Party

Participation in Convention on Cluster Munitions meetings

Attended First Meeting of States Parties in Vientiane, Lao PDR in November 2010

Policy

The Republic of Niger signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008. Niger ratified on 2 June 2009 and was among the first 30 ratifications that triggered the convention’s entry into force on 1 August 2010.

In November 2010, a government official informed the CMC that Niger would begin to prepare a national implementation law after elections scheduled to be held in early 2011.[1]

Niger’s initial Convention on Cluster Munitions Article 7 report was due by 28 January 2011, but as of July 2011 the UN had not received the report.

Niger participated in the Oslo Process that produced the convention and supported a comprehensive treaty without exception.[2] Niger has continued to engage in the work of the convention. It participated in the First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Vientiane, Lao PDR in November 2010, but did not make a statement. Niger did not attend intersessional meetings of the convention in Geneva in June 2011.

Niger has not yet made known 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, and the prohibition on investment in production of cluster munitions.

Niger is party to Mine Ban Treaty. It is also a party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons, but has not ratified CCW Protocol V on explosive remnants of war or actively engaged in recent CCW deliberations on cluster munitions.

Niger has confirmed that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[3]

 



[1] CMC meeting with Abdou Seydou Sayni, Vice-President, National Commission for the Collection and Control of Illicit Weapons (Commission Nationale pour la Collecte et le Contrôle des Armes Illicites, CNCCAI), Lao PDR, 9–12 November 2010.

[2] For details on Niger’s cluster munition policy and practice through early 2009, see Human Rights Watch and Landmine Action, Banning Cluster Munitions: Government Policy and Practice (Ottawa: Mines Action Canada, May 2009), pp. 133–134.

[3] Letter No. 001581 from Aichatou Mindaoudou, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, 3 March 2009.