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Cluster Munition Ban Policy
Policy
The People’s Republic of Bangladesh has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Bangladesh has never made a public statement regarding its position on joining the convention. In April 2014, a government representative informed the CMC that the ban convention will be examined by a recently established Committee on International Humanitarian Law that is responsible for reviewing relevant international treaties.[1] Previously, in 2010, another official informed the CMC that Bangladesh’s accession to the convention was a matter of priorities.[2]
Bangladesh participated in several meetings of the Oslo Process that created the convention, but did not attend the formal negotiations in Dublin in May 2008.[3] Bangladesh attended a regional conference on cluster munitions in Bali, Indonesia in November 2009.
Bangladesh participated as an observer in the convention’s Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, Zambia in September 2013, but did not make any statements. Bangladesh also attended intersessional meetings of the convention in Geneva in 2011 and in April 2014.
Bangladesh is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Bangladesh is not known to have used, produced, or exported cluster munitions, and is not known to possess any stockpiles of the weapons. In September 2013, a representative of Bangladesh’s Armed Forces told the CMC that Bangladesh does not possess cluster munitions.[4]
[1] CMC interview with Kazi Muntashir Murshed, Second Secretary, Geneva, 8 April 2014; and CMC interview with Iqbal Ahmed, Director, Economic Affairs and Mahbur Rahman, Assistant Secretary, UN Section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka, 1 April 2014.
[2] Meeting with Sarwar Mahmood, Counselor, Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to the UN in New York, New York, 19 October 2010. Notes by the CMC.
[3] For more information on Bangladesh’s policy and practice regarding cluster munitions through early 2010, see ICBL, Cluster Munition Monitor 2010 (Ottawa: Mines Action Canada, October 2010), p. 196.
[4] CMC interview with Muhammad Golam Sarowar, Armed Forces Division, Armed Forces of Bangladesh, in Lusaka, 12 September 2013. Notes by the CMC.
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