Summary

Non-signatory Barbados has never commented on cluster munitions or its position on acceding to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, but has voted in favor of every annual United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention. Barbados is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

Barbados has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Barbados did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention. It has never made an official statement to elaborate its views on banning cluster munitions.

Barbados has never attended a formal meeting of the convention, though a government official participated in a regional workshop on the convention in St. George’s, Grenada in March 2020.

In December 2021, Barbados voted in favor of the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution urging states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.”[1] Barbados has voted in favor of the annual UNGA resolution promoting the convention since it was first introduced in 2015.

Barbados has also voted in favor of UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2020.[2]

Barbados is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW).

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Barbados is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.