Summary

Non-signatory Kyrgyzstan agreed to adopt the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008, but never signed it and has taken no steps to join since then. Kyrgyzstan last participated in a meeting of the convention in 2012. It voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2021.

Kyrgyzstan states that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Kyrgyz Republic has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Kyrgyzstan last commented on the convention in an April 2010 letter to the Monitor, when it said that the matter of its accession to the convention was “under consideration.”[1]

Kyrgyzstan participated in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and joined in the consensus adoption of the convention text in Dublin in May 2008. Yet Kyrgyzstan did not attend the convention’s Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008.[2]

Kyrgyzstan participated as an observer at the convention’s Meetings of States Parties in 2012 and 2013, but has not attended since then. It was invited to, but did not attend, the convention’s Second Review Conference held in November 2020 and September 2021.

In December 2021, Kyrgyzstan voted in favor of a key United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution urging states outside the convention to “join as soon as possible.”[3] It has voted in favor of the annual resolution promoting the convention since 2016.[4]

Kyrgyzstan is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty or the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW).

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Kyrgyzstan informed the Monitor in 2010 that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[5]