Five-Year Review: Non-signatory Nepal has never commented on its position on accession to the convention. It participated in the convention’s Meetings of States Parties since 2013. Nepal states that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Nepal has not made a public statement articulating its position on accession to the convention. In 2013, a government representative informed the CMC that Nepal is interested in the convention, but has other priorities.[1] Previously, in 2009, the Minister of Peace and Reconstruction told the CMC that there are no issues preventing the government from acceding to the convention.[2]

Nepal participated in two meetings of the Oslo Process that created the convention (Vienna in December 2007 and Wellington in February 2008) but it did not attend the Dublin negotiations in May 2008.

Nepal participated as an observer in the convention’s Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, Zambia in September 2013, but did not make any statements. This was Nepal’s first and to date only participation in a meeting of the convention.

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

The Nepal Campaign to Ban Landmines (NCBL) is the national partner of the CMC. At a November 2014 meeting of civil society representatives from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member states, the NCBL helped draft a declaration that included a call for SAARC states to ban production, use, and transfer of cluster munitions and destroy all stockpiles.[3]

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Nepal has stated that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[4]