Five-Year Review: In 2012, signatory Haiti indicated that its parliament was considering ratification of the convention, but the current status of its ratification process is not known. Haiti has attended two Meetings of States Parties of the convention. Haiti is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Republic of Haiti signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 28 October 2009, but has yet to ratify.

The status of ratification is not currently known. Previously, in January 2012, the president of the Senate said that the National Assembly was considering ratification of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[1]

Haiti did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions and did not attend any meetings relating to the convention until September 2013 when it attended the Fourth Meeting of State Parties in Lusaka, Zambia. Haiti attended the Fifth Meeting of States Parties in San Jose, Costa Rica. It did not make a statement at the meeting. Haiti also attended a regional workshop on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in December 2013, which issued a declaration urging the “early establishment” of a cluster munitions-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean.[2] Haiti has voted in favor of UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions condemning the use of cluster munitions in Syria, including Resolution 69/189 on 18 December 2014, which expressed “outrage” at the continued use.[3]

Haiti is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. Haiti has not joined the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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