Summary: State Party Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ratified the convention on 29 October 2010. It provided an initial transparency report for the convention in 2012, confirming that it has never produced cluster munitions and has no stockpile.

Policy

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 23 September 2009 and ratified on 29 October 2010, becoming a State Party on 1 April 2011.

The status of national implementation measures to enforce implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions is not clear.[1]

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines provided an initial Article 7 transparency measures report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 29 April 2012.[2] As of 25 June 2016, it had yet to provide any of the annual updated reports due by 30 April of each year.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention in 2008, but signed the convention on 23 September 2009.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has never participated in a meeting of the convention, such as the First Review Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia in September 2015. It attended a regional meeting on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in September 2009.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has yet to elaborate 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 foreign stockpiling of cluster munitions, the prohibition on investment in production of cluster munitions, and the need for retention of cluster munitions for training and development purposes.

On 7 December 2015, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines voted in favor of the first UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution on the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which urges states outside the convention to “join as soon as possible.”[3] The resolution also stresses the importance of the full and effective implementation of and compliance with the convention.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also a party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines reported in 2012 that it has not produced cluster munitions, does not stockpile the weapons, and has no areas contaminated by cluster munition remnants.[4]

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.