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Cluster Munition Ban Policy
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The Kingdom of Bhutan has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Bhutan has never made a public statement detailing its position on joining the convention. In October 2010, Bhutan’s permanent representative to the UN in New York told the CMC that the government views the convention as “a commendable achievement” and said the government was “looking at it very closely with a view to taking positive action” on accession.[1]
Bhutan has said that there are no obstacles to it joining the convention but limited resources available internally to undertake the accession process.[2]
Bhutan did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions and it has not attended any meetings of the convention.[3]
Bhutan is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Bhutan is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions. In October 2010, a government representative said that Bhutan is a peaceful country that does not have any cluster munitions or any plans to acquire them.[4]
[1] Meeting with Amb. Lhatu Wangchuk, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the UN in New York, New York, 19 October 2010. Notes by the CMC.
[2] Ibid; and interview with Kingye Singye, Minister-Counselor, Embassy of the Kingdom of Bhutan, New Delhi, 29 January 2010.
[3] Bhutan’s only participation in an event on cluster munitions was in October 2009 when it attended a special event on the Convention on Cluster Munitions at the UN in New York.
[4] Meeting with Amb. Lhatu Wangchuk, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the UN in New York, New York, 19 October 2010. Notes by the CMC.
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