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Cluster Munition Ban Policy
The Republic of Mauritius has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Mauritius has not made any public statements on its cluster munition policy.
Officials have said that there are no obstacles to Mauritius joining the convention, other than the fact that it is a small country with limited capacity, and the convention is not high on the political agenda.[1]
In March 2010, Mauritius attended the Africa Regional Conference on the Universalization and Implementation on the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Pretoria, South Africa, and the International Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions in June 2010 in Santiago, Chile, but did not make any statements.
Mauritius did not participate in the negotiations of the convention in Dublin in May 2008, or any of the international preparatory conferences of the Oslo Process. It did attend the Kampala Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions in September 2008 where it supported the Kampala Action Plan, calling for African states to sign and ratify the convention and to take interim measures to ensure its effective implementation.[2]
Mauritius is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), but has yet to ratify its Protocol V on explosive remnants of war. Mauritius has not actively participated in the CCW discussions on cluster munitions that have taken place in recent years.
Mauritius is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
[1] CMC meeting with the delegation of Mauritius, International Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Santiago, 7–9 June 2010.
[2] CMC, “Report on the Kampala Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions, September 2008,” www.stopclustermuntions.org; and Kampala Action Plan, Kampala Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions, 30 September 2008.
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