Five-Year Review: State Party Guinea ratified the convention on 21 October 2014. It has participated in some meetings of the convention, most recently in 2011. Guinea is believed to stockpile cluster munitions, but is not known to have ever used, produced, or exported the weapons. Guinea’s initial transparency report for the convention is due in September 2015.

Policy

The Republic of Guinea signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008 and ratified on 21 October 2014. The convention entered into force for Guinea on 1 April 2015, making it the convention’s 87^th State Party.[1]

Guinea’s initial Article 7 transparency report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions is due in September 2015.

Guinea participated in the Oslo Process that created the convention, including the Dublin negotiations in May 2008, where it joined in the consensus adoption of the convention.[2] Guinea has not attended any meetings of the convention since 2011, but a representative attended a workshop on the universalization of the convention convened for African diplomatic missions in Geneva in February 2014.[3]

Guinea voted in favor of UN General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution 69/189 on 18 December 2014, which expressed “outrage” at “the continued use of…cluster munitions” in Syria.[4] 

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

Interpretive issues

Guinea has yet to provide its views on certain important issues related to interpretation and implementation of the convention, including the prohibition on assistance, transit, foreign stockpiling, and prohibition on investment in production of cluster munitions.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Guinea is not known to have used, produced, or exported cluster munitions, but it is believed to have a stockpile. Moldova reported the transfer to Guinea in the year 2000 of 860 9M27K cluster munition rockets, each containing 30 submunitions, for Guinea’s 220mm Uragan multiple launch rocket system.[5]

Guinea must clarify the status of the stockpile in its forthcoming transparency report, as well as indicate if it intends to retain any cluster munitions for research and training purposes.