Summary: State Party Fiji ratified the convention on 28 May 2010. It has participated in a meeting of the convention and voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution on the convention in December 2017. Fiji reports that it has not used, produced, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Republic of Fiji signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008, ratified on 28 May 2010, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 November 2010.

Fiji has not undertaken any national implementation legislation or other measures to enforce the convention’s provisions, indicating it may view existing laws as sufficient to ensure its compliance.[1]

On 3 April 2018, Fiji provided its initial Article 7 transparency report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions, covering the period from 28 May 2011 to 30 April 2018.[2]

Fiji joined the Oslo Process in February 2008 and adopted the Convention on Cluster Munitions at the end of negotiations in Dublin on 30 May 2008.[3]

Fiji has attended one meeting of the convention: the Second Meeting of States Parties in Beirut, Lebanon in September 2011.

In December 2017, Fiji voted in favor of a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution promoting implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[4] It voted in favor of previous UNGA resolutions on the convention in 2015 and 2016.

Fiji has yet to provide its views on certain important issues related to interpretation and implementation of the convention, such as the prohibition on transit, the prohibition on assistance during joint military operations with states not party that may use cluster munitions, the prohibition on investment in production of cluster munitions, and the prohibition on foreign stockpiling of cluster munitions. During the Dublin negotiations, Fiji supported the retention of cluster munitions for training purposes.[5]

Fiji is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

In its initial Article 7 report provided in April 2018, Fiji confirms that it has not produced and does not possess a stockpile of cluster munitions—including any for research and training—and is not contaminated by cluster munition remnants.[6] Previously, Fiji stated on several occasions that it did not use, produce, or stockpile cluster munitions.[7]

Policy

The Republic of the Fiji Islands signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 10 June 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 March 1999. Fiji has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty.

Fiji occasionally attends meetings of the treaty, most recently the Thirteenth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva in December 2013. Fiji did not attend the Third Review Conference in Maputo in June 2014. Fiji submitted its second Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report on 21 August 2002 and has not provided subsequent annual reports.

On 5 December 2018, Fiji voted in favor of UN General Assembly Resolution 73/61 promoting universalization and implementation of the convention, as it has done previously.[1]

Fiji is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons. Fiji is party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Fiji has never used, produced, imported, exported, or stockpiled antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes.