Five-Year Review: State Party Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ratified the convention on 29 October 2010. It attended a regional meeting on cluster munitions in 2009, but has never participated in a meeting of the convention. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines provided an initial transparency report for the convention in 2012, confirming that it has not produced cluster munitions and has no stockpile.

Policy

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 23 September 2009 and ratified on 29 October 2010, becoming a State Party on 1 April 2011.

The status of national implementation measures to enforce implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions is not clear. Previously, in April 2012, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines reported that implementation measures were “pending.”[1]

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines provided its initial Article 7 transparency measures report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 29 April 2012.[2] As of 1 May 2015, it had yet to provide any of the annual updated reports due by 30 April of each year.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention in 2008, but signed the convention on 23 September 2009. It was 44^th State Party to the convention and second Caribbean country to ratify.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines attended a regional meeting on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in September 2009. It has never attended a meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, such as the Fifth Meeting of States Parties held in San Jose, Costa Rica in September 2014, or the intersessional meetings held annually in Geneva.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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 need for retention of cluster munitions and submunitions for training and development purposes.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also a party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines declared in 2012 that it has not produced cluster munitions, does not stockpile the weapons, and has no areas contaminated by cluster munition remnants.[3]