Policy

The Principality of Monaco signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008, ratified on 21 September 2010, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 March 2011.

Monaco has not declared any national implementation measures such as legislation to enforce the provisions of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, as required by Article 9.[1]

Monaco submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions in August 2011 and provided annual updates indicating no change in 2012 and 2014.[2]

Monaco attended one meeting of the Oslo Process that created the convention (Vienna in December 2007) as well as the Oslo Signing Conference in December 2008.

Monaco’s first and only participation in a meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions since 2008 was in 2010, when it participated in the convention’s First Meeting of States Parties. Monaco did not attend the convention’s Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, Zambia in September 2013.

Monaco has voted in favor of recent UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions condemning the Syrian government’s use of cluster munitions, including Resolution 68/182 on 18 December 2013, which expressed “outrage” at “continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights…including those involving the use of…cluster munitions.”[3]

Monaco has not yet provided its views on a number of issues important for the interpretation and implementation of the convention, including the prohibition on assistance with prohibited acts in joint military operations, the prohibitions on foreign stockpiling and transit of cluster munitions, and the prohibition on investment in cluster munition production.

Monaco is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Monaco has declared that it does not produce or stockpile cluster munitions.[4] It is not known to have ever used or transferred cluster munitions.