Five-Year Review: State Party Seychelles ratified the convention on 20 May 2010, less than a month after signing it. Seychelles has expressed its intent to enact national implementation legislation for the convention. It participated in a meeting of the convention in 2013. In its initial transparency report for the convention provided in 2013, Seychelles confirmed it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions and has not retained any cluster munitions for research or training.

Policy

The Republic of Seychelles signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 13 April 2010, ratified on 20 May 2010, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 November 2010.[1]

After conducting a legislative review, in 2013 Seychelles announced its intent to amend its existing implementation law for the Mine Ban Treaty to apply the provisions of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[2] As of July 2015, it is not known if any progress has been made to draft and adopt implementing legislation for the convention.

Seychelles submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 30 April 2013.[3] As of 4 July 2015, it had not provided any of the updated annual reports due by 30 April.

Seychelles participated in the Oslo Process that created the convention and advocated for a humanitarian rather than technical approach to tackling cluster munitions.[4]

Seychelles has not participated in any Meetings of States Parties of the convention and it attended the convention’s intersessional meetings in Geneva only once, in April 2013. It has participated in regional workshops on the convention, most recently in Lomé, Togo in May 2013.

Seychelles has not elaborated its views on certain important issues related to interpretation and implementation of the convention, including 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, and the prohibition on investment in cluster munition production.

Seychelles 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.[5]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

In 2013, Seychelles stated that it has never used, produced, imported, stockpiled, or transferred cluster munitions, “nor does it have any intention to do so.”[6] It has reported that it has no cluster munitions, including for training or research purposes.[7]