Five-Year Review: State Party Saint Kitts and Nevis acceded to the convention on 13 September 2013. It is not known if specific implementing legislation is planned. Saint Kitts and Nevis has attended two Meetings of States Parties to the convention in addition to regional workshops on cluster munitions. It has not submitted its initial transparency report for the convention, due by 28 August 2014, but is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

Saint Kitts and Nevis acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 13 September 2013 and became a State Party on 1 March 2014.

It is not known if specific national legislation is planned to implement the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

As of 1 May 2015, Saint Kitts and Nevis has not submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report for the convention, which was due by 28 August 2014.

Saint Kitts and Nevis attended one meeting of the Oslo Process that created the convention (Vienna in December 2007) and one regional meeting (Mexico City in April 2008). From 2009 on, officials from Saint Kitts and Nevis including the foreign minister indicated on several occasions that the government was actively considering its accession to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[1] Saint Kitts and Nevis deposited its instrument of accession on the final day of the convention’s Fourth Meeting of State Parties in September 2013. A representative from Saint Kitts and Nevis participated in the convention’s Third Meeting of States Parties in Lusaka, Zambia, but did not make any statement.[2]

Saint Kitts and Nevis did not attend the convention’s Fifth Meeting of States Parties in San Jose, Costa Rica in September 2014 and it has not engaged in the convention’s intersessional meetings in Geneva. It participated in a regional workshop on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in December 2013.

Saint Kitts and Nevis has not made a statement expressing concern at Syria’s use of cluster munitions.

Saint Kitts and Nevis is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Saint Kitts and Nevis is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.