Five-Year Review: State Party Nauru ratified the convention on 4 February 2013. It has not provided its initial transparency report, originally due in January 2014, or attended a meeting of the convention. Nauru is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Republic of Nauru signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo on 3 December 2008, ratified on 4 February 2013, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 August 2013.

It is not known if Nauru will enact legislation or other national implementation measures to enforce the provisions of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

As of 14 May 2015, Nauru had not submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report for the convention, originally due by 28 January 2014.

Nauru expressed support for a ban on cluster munitions during the Oslo Process when it participated in the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions in February 2008 and endorsed the Wellington Declaration agreeing to the conclusion of a legally-binding instrument.[1] Nauru did not attend the subsequent Dublin negotiations of the convention, but signed the convention in Oslo in December 2008.

Nauru has never attended a meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. It has participated in regional meetings on unexploded ordnance held in Koror, Palau in October 2012 and Brisbane in June 2013.

Nauru has yet to provide its views on certain important issues related to interpretation and implementation of the convention, such as the prohibition on transit, the prohibition on assistance during joint military operations with states not party that may use cluster munitions, the prohibition on foreign stockpiling of cluster munitions, the prohibition on investment in production of cluster munitions, and the retention of cluster munitions and submunitions for training and development purposes.

Nauru 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.[2]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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