Five-Year Review: State Party Tunisia ratified the convention on 28 September 2010 and has participated in several of meetings of the convention, most recently in 2014. Tunisia has informed the Monitor that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions, but must submit its initial transparency report for the convention—originally due by August 2011—to formally confirm this.

Policy

The Republic of Tunisia signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 12 January 2009, ratified on 28 September 2010, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 March 2011.

Tunisia informed the Monitor in April 2011 that it adheres to the convention under the terms of its ratification law enacted in February 2010.

As of 25 July 2015, Tunisia still had not submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions, originally due by 28 August 2011.

Tunisia participated in one regional meeting of the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions (Livingstone, Zambia in March 2008) and was the first country to sign the convention after it was opened for signature in Oslo in December 2008.[1]

Tunisia has participated in two of the convention’s Meetings of States Parties, most recently in 2012. It attended the convention’s intersessional meetings in Geneva in 2012 and April 2014, but did not make any statements.

Tunisia has voted in favor of UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions condemning the use of cluster munitions in Syria, including Resolution 68/182 on 18 December 2013, which expressed “outrage” at the continued use.[2]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Tunisia has informed the Monitor that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions, but must submit its initial transparency report for the convention to formally confirm this.[3]

Tunisia is reported to possess the Hydra-70 air-to-surface unguided rocket system, but it is not known if the ammunition types available to it include the M261 Multi-Purpose Submunition rocket.[4]