Summary

Non-signatory Uzbekistan has never commented on the humanitarian concerns raised by cluster munitions or participated in a meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. It has abstained from voting on the annual United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention since it was first introduced in 2015.

Uzbekistan is not known to have used, produced, or exported cluster munitions, though it inherited a stockpile from the Soviet Union.

Policy

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

Uzbekistan did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention.

It has never attended a meeting of the convention or made a public statement on the humanitarian concerns raised by cluster munitions.

Uzbekistan abstained from the vote on a key United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution in December 2021 that urged states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.”[1] Uzbekistan has abstained from voting on the annual UNGA resolution promoting the convention since it was first introduced in 2015.

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Uzbekistan is not known to have used, produced, or exported cluster munitions, but it possesses stocks of cluster munitions inherited after the break-up of the Soviet Union.

According to Jane’s Information Group, Uzbekistan’s air force possesses KMG-U dispensers.[2] Uzbekistan also possesses Grad 122mm and Uragan 220mm surface-to-surface rockets, though it is not known whether these include versions with submunition payloads.[3]