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Cluster Munition Ban Policy
Policy
The Republic of Djibouti signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 30 July 2010.
The status of ratification is not known. In February 2014, a government representative attended a workshop in Geneva on universalization of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Africa and committed to follow-up with capital. When Djibouti last attended a Meeting of States Parties in September 2012, it stated that the ratification was underway but provided no details on the process or timeframe for completion.[1]
Djibouti participated in some meetings of the Oslo Process that created the convention. It did not attend the Oslo signing conference in December 2008, but signed at the UN in New York in July 2010 after making several positive statements in support of the convention.[2]
Despite not ratifying, Djibouti has continued to participate in the work of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. It attended the convention’s Meeting of States Parties held in 2010, 2011, and 2012, but was not present for the convention’s Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, Zambia in September 2013. After participating the first intersessional meetings of the convention held in Geneva in June 2011, Djibouti has not attended subsequent intersessional meetings such as those held in April 2014.
Djibouti also participated in a regional meeting in Lomé, Togo in May 2013 where it endorsed the Lomé Strategy on the Universalization of the Convention on Cluster Munitions which commits governments that have not yet done so to ratify at the earliest opportunity.
Djibouti has voted in favor of UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions condemning the Syrian government’s cluster munition use, including Resolution 68/182 on 18 December 2013, which expressed “outrage” at Syria’s “continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights” including the use of cluster munitions.[3]
Djibouti is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Djibouti has stated several times that it has not used, produced, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[4]
[1] Statement of Djibouti, Convention on Cluster Munitions Third Meeting of States Parties, Oslo, 13 September 2012.
[2] For more information on Djibouti’s policy and practice regarding cluster munitions through mid-2010, see ICBL, Cluster Munition Monitor 2010 (Ottawa: Mines Action Canada, October 2010), pp. 143–144.
[3] “Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,” UNGA Resolution A/RES/68/182, 18 December 2013. Djibouti voted in favor of a similar resolution on 15 May 2013.
[4] Statement of Djibouti, Convention on Cluster Munitions Third Meeting of States Parties, Oslo, 13 September 2012. Interview with Amb. Mohamed Siad Douale, Permanent Mission of Djibouti to the UN in Geneva, 13 April 2010; and statement of Djibouti, Convention on Cluster Munitions First Meeting of States Parties, Vientiane, 10 November 2010. Notes by the CMC.
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