Five-Year Review: State Party Grenada was the first country in the world to accede to the convention on 29 June 2011. Grenada has participated in several meetings of the convention since its accession. In its initial transparency report provided in 2012, Grenada confirmed that it has not used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

Grenada acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 29 June 2011, becoming the first country in the world to accede to the convention.[1] The convention entered into force for Grenada on 1 December 2011.

In 2013, it reported that the convention’s adoption into domestic law was “ongoing.”[2]

Grenada provided its initial Article 7 transparency measures report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 30 April 2012 and submitted an annual updated report on 30 April 2013. As of 12 May 2015, Grenada had yet to provide the annual updated reports due by 30 April 2014 or 30 April 2015.

Grenada participated in a regional meeting of the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions (Quito, Ecuador in November 2008), but did not engage in any of the international preparatory conferences or the formal negotiations of the convention. It participated in a regional conference on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in September 2009.

The first international meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions that Grenada attended was the Second Meeting of States Parties in Beirut, Lebanon in September 2011 followed by the Fourth Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, Zambia in September 2013, where it made a statement.[3] Grenada did not attend the Fifth Meeting of States Parties held in San Jose, Costa Rica in September 2014.

Grenada participated in the convention’s intersessional meetings in Geneva in April 2012 and April 2013, but has not attended any intersessional meetings since then. Grenada participated in a regional workshop on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in December 2013, where its representative gave a regional overview on the status of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[4]

Grenada 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]

Grenada has not yet provided 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 retention of cluster munitions and submunitions for training and development purposes.

Grenada is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Grenada stated “N/A” or not applicable in its Article 7 report forms on production and stockpiling, thereby confirming that it has not used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions. It reports that no cluster munitions have been retained for research or training purposes.

United States (US) Navy aircraft dropped Mk-20 Rockeye cluster bombs on Grenada during the invasion of Grenada in October–November 1983.[6] In 2012, Grenada announced that a survey had found no contamination of the areas where cluster munitions were used by the US during the invasion.[7]