Five-Year Review: Non-signatory Tonga has not made a statement elaborating its position on joining the convention. It has not participated in any meetings of the convention and is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Kingdom of Tonga has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Tonga has not made a formal statement to elaborate its policy on banning cluster munitions.

Tonga attended one meeting of the Oslo Process, the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions in February 2008, but it did not endorse the Wellington Declaration in support of the negotiation of an instrument prohibiting cluster munitions. Tonga did not attend the subsequent Dublin negotiations or the Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference in Oslo.

Tonga has not participated in any meetings of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[1]

Tonga is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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