Five-Year Review: State Party Chad ratified the convention on 26 March 2013. Chad has indicated it intends to enact national implementing legislation for the convention. Chad has participated in nearly all of the convention’s meetings and has condemned new use of cluster munitions in South Sudan, Sudan, and Ukraine.

Chad has yet to provide its transparency report for the convention, which was due in March 2012 and necessary for Chad to formally clarify if it has a stockpile of cluster munitions. Chad is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions. Cluster munitions have been used in Chad in the past.

Policy

The Republic of Chad signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008, ratified on 26 March 2013, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 September 2013.

Chad has indicated it intends to enact national implementing legislation for the convention, but the current status is not known.[1] Chad’s parliament approved ratification of the convention on 29 March 2012.[2]

As of 15 May 2015, Chad had not yet submitted its initial Article 7 transparency measures report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which was originally due by 28 February 2014.

Chad actively participated in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions and supported a comprehensive ban on cluster munitions.[3]

Chad has continued to engage in the work of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, participating in all but one of its Meeting of States Parties, including the Fifth Meeting of States Parties in San Jose, Costa Rica in September 2014.[4] Chad has attended all of the convention’s intersessional meetings in Geneva, except in June 2015. It has participated in regional conferences on the convention, most recently in Lomé, Togo in May 2013.

In 2014 and 2015, Chad spoke out against new use of cluster munitions in South Sudan and Ukraine, both times in its capacity as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. During a Security Council debate on 24 October, Chad expressed concern that “the Ukrainian army and separatist forces are using cluster bombs in their confrontations in eastern Ukraine. As the Council is aware, such weapons cause severe harm. Sometimes, when a bomb does not explode immediately, it becomes the equivalent of a mine. Chad emphatically condemns the use of those weapons of mass destruction in violation of international treaties and calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities.”[5]

In June 2015, Chad voted in favor of a UN Security Council resolution expressing concern at evidence of cluster munition use by the government of Sudan and reiterating a call by the Secretary-General for Sudan to “immediately investigate the use of cluster munitions.”[6] On May 2014, Chad endorsed Security Council Resolution 2155, which expressed concern at the use of cluster munitions in South Sudan and called for “all parties to refrain from similar such use in the future.”[7]

Chad is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Chad is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

French aircraft dropped cluster munitions on a Libyan airfield inside Chad at Wadi Doum during the 1986–1987 conflict. Libyan forces used AO-1SCh and PTAB-2.5 submunitions.

In September 2012, Chad stated that the extent to which its territory is contaminated by cluster munition remnants is not precisely known, but it was evident the weapons were used in the Fada region and likely in other parts of the north.[8]

In April 2012, a Chadian official—in response to questions about Libyan arms stockpiles that were left unsecured during the 2011 Libyan conflict—informed the Monitor that there have been no transfers of cluster munitions from Libya to Chad.[9]