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Cluster Munition Ban Policy
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The Republic of Maldives has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Maldives has never made a public statement detailing its position on joining the ban convention.
Maldives did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Its first, and to date only, participation in a meeting on cluster munitions came in November 2010, when Maldives attended the First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Vientiane, Lao PDR as an observer.
Maldives 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 those involving the use of…cluster munitions.”[1]
Maldives is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Maldives is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
[1] “Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,ituation of human rights in the 18 December 2013. The Maldives voted in support of a similar resolution on 15 May 2013.
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