Five-Year Review: Non-signatory Maldives has never elaborated its views on its position on accession to the convention. It participated as an observer in one meeting of the convention in 2010, but did not make a statement. Maldives is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

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

Maldives has never made a public statement detailing its position on joining the ban convention.

Maldives did not engage in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Its first, and to date only, participation in a meeting on cluster munitions was in November 2010, when Maldives attended the First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Vientiane, Lao PDR as an observer.

Maldives 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.[1] Maldives voted for four Human Rights Council resolutions in 2014 and 2015 that condemned the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently on 2 July 2015.[2]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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