Five-Year Review: Non-signatory Bangladesh has not elaborated its view on cluster munitions or its position on accession to the convention. It participated as an observer in two of the convention’s Meeting of States Parties, most recently in 2014. Bangladesh is not known to have used, produced, exported, or possessed any stockpiles of cluster munitions.

Policy

The People’s Republic of Bangladesh has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Bangladesh has never made a public statement elaborating its views on cluster munitions or position on joining the convention. A government representative informed the CMC in April 2014 that the Committee on International Humanitarian Law, which is responsible for reviewing relevant international treaties, would consider the convention.[1] In 2010, another official informed the CMC that Bangladesh’s accession to the convention was a matter of priorities.[2]

Bangladesh participated in several meetings of the Oslo Process that created the convention, but did not attend the formal negotiations in Dublin in May 2008.[3] Bangladesh attended a regional conference on cluster munitions in Bali, Indonesia in November 2009.

Bangladesh participated as an observer in the convention’s Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, Zambia in September 2013 and the Fifth Meeting of States Parties in San Jose, Costa Rica in September 2014, but did not make any statements. Bangladesh attended intersessional meetings of the convention in Geneva twice, in 2011 and 2014.

Bangladesh is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Bangladesh is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions. In September 2013, a representative of Bangladesh’s Armed Forces told the CMC that Bangladesh does not possess cluster munitions.[4]