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Chad

Last Updated: 17 August 2012

Cluster Munition Ban Policy

Commitment to the Convention on Cluster Munitions

Convention on Cluster Munitions status

Signatory

Participation in Convention on Cluster Munitions meetings

Attended Second Meeting of States Parties in Lebanon in September 2011 and intersessional meetings in Geneva in April 2012

Key developments

Domestic ratification process completed

Policy

The Republic of Chad signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008.

As of 25 June 2012, Chad had completed all the necessary domestic steps to ratify the convention and all that remained was for the instrument of ratification to be deposited with the UN in New York.

On 16 April 2012, Chad announced that its parliament has approved ratification and its president has signed the ratification instrument, so the government is in the “final process” of depositing its instrument of ratification with the UN in New York.[1] Throughout 2010 and 2011, Chad provided regular updates on the status of its ratification.[2]

In April 2012, a government official informed the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) that there are currently no plans to enact new national legislation to implement the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[3]

Chad actively engaged in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions and supported a comprehensive ban on cluster munitions.[4] It continued to engage in the work of the convention in 2011 and the first half of 2012. Chad attended the convention’s Second Meeting of States Parties in Beirut, Lebanon in September 2011, where it provided an update on ratification.[5] At the convention’s intersessional meetings in Geneva in April 2012, Chad made statements on universalization, victim assistance, and clearance.

Chad is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty.

Chad is not a party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW).

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Chad is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

French aircraft dropped cluster munitions on a Libyan airfield inside Chad at Wadi Doum during the 1986–1987 conflict. Libyan forces used AO-1SCh and PTAB-2.5 submunitions.

In April 2012, a Chadian official informed the Monitor that there have been no transfers of cluster munitions from Libya to Chad, in response to questions about Libyan arms stockpiles that were left unsecured during the 2011 Libya conflict.[6]

 



[1] Statement by Saleh Hissein Hassan, Coordinator, National Mine Action Center, Convention on Cluster Munitions Intersessional Meetings, Geneva, 16 April 2012. Hassan informed the Cluster Munition Coalition that Parliament approved ratification on 29 March 2012; and CMC meeting with Hassan, National Mine Action Center, Convention on Cluster Munitions Intersessional Meetings, Geneva, 18 April 2012.

[2] Statement by Assane Ngueadoum, Technical Advisor, National Demining Office of Chad, Convention on Cluster Munitions Intersessional Meeting, Geneva, 29 June 2011; CMC meeting with Nguedoum, Ministry of Economy, International Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Santiago, 7–9 June 2010; and Statement of Chad, International Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Santiago, 7 June 2010. Notes by AOAV/Human Rights Watch.

[3] CMC meeting with Hassan, National Mine Action Center, Convention on Cluster Munitions Intersessional Meetings, Geneva, 18 April 2012.

[4] For details on Chad’s cluster munition policy and practice up to early 2009, see Human Rights Watch and Landmine Action, Banning Cluster Munitions: Government Policy and Practice (Ottawa: Mines Action Canada, May 2009), pp. 55-56.

[5] Statement by Brahim Djibrine Brahim, Coordinator, National Demining Center, Convention on Cluster Munitions Second Meeting of States Parties, Beirut, Lebanon, 13 September 2011.

[6] According to the official, Chad deployed two explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams and an army regiment to ensure that no weapons crossed the border from Libya with refugees entering Chad. CMC meeting with .Hassan, National Mine Action Center, Convention on Cluster Munitions Intersessional Meetings, Geneva, 18 April 2012.