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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 the Dublin negotiations in May 2008 or the Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008, even as an observer.
Nepal has not participated in any meetings of the Convention on Cluster Munitions since 2008. It was invited to, but did not attend, the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Beirut, Lebanon in September 2011.
Nepal is not a party to the Mine Ban Treaty.
Nepal is not a party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Nepal has confirmed that it does not possess cluster munitions and has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[2]
[1] NCBL and CMC interview with Rakam Chemjong, Minister for Peace and Reconstruction, Cartagena, 3 December 2009.
[2] 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, Cartagena, 3 December 2009.
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