Policy

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 1 August 2001, becoming a State Party on 1 February 2002. Legislation to enforce the antipersonnel mine prohibition domestically was enacted on 24 December 2002.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has not attended any recent meetings of the treaty. It did not attend the Third Review Conference in Maputo in June 2014. It submitted an initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report in September 2004 but none subsequently.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines joined the Convention on Conventional Weapons on 6 December 2010, including Amended Protocol II on landmines and Protocol V on explosive remnants of war. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is also party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpile

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has never used, produced, exported, or imported antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes.