Five-Year Review: Non-signatory Dominica indicated in 2010 that it had no plans to join the convention, but its current position is unknown. It has never attended a meeting on cluster munitions. Dominica has informed the Monitor that it has not used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Commonwealth of Dominica has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Dominica did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention and it has never attended a meeting on cluster munitions. In a 2010 letter to Cluster Munition Monitor, a Ministry of Finance official stated, “I have been directed to inform that the Government of Dominica has no interest in being a party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.”[1]

Dominica has, however, voted in favor of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions condemning use of cluster munitions in Syria, including Resolution 69/189 on 18 December 2014, which expressed “outrage” at the continued use.[2]

Dominica is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It has not joined the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Dominica stated in its 2010 letter to the Monitor that it has not used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[3]