Five-Year Review: Non-signatory Kyrgyzstan adopted the convention in 2008 and has indicated support for it, but is not known to have taken any steps towards accession. Kyrgyzstan has participated as an observer in several meetings of the convention. Kyrgyzstan has informed the Monitor that it never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

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

Kyrgyzstan last commented on the convention in an April 2010 letter to the Monitor, which stated that accession to the convention was “under consideration.” [1]

Kyrgyzstan participated in the Oslo Process that led to the creation of the convention and joined in the consensus adoption of the convention text in Dublin in May 2008, but did not attend the Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008.[2]

Kyrgyzstan participated as an observer in the convention’s Third Meeting of States Parties in Oslo in September 2012 and the Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka in September 2013. It was invited to but did not attend the convention’s Fifth Meeting of States Parties in San Jose in September 2014. Kyrgyzstan attended the convention’s intersessional meetings in Geneva once, in April 2013. It did not make any statements at these meetings.

Kyrgyzstan is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty or the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

In 2010, Kyrgyzstan informed the Monitor that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[3]