Uzbekistan

Cluster Munition Ban Policy

Last updated: 18 June 2015

Five-Year Summary: Non-signatory Uzbekistan has never commented on its position on accession to the convention or participated in a meeting of the convention. Uzbekistan is not known to have used, produced, or exported cluster munitions, but inherited a stockpile of the weapons from the Soviet Union.

Policy

The Republic of Uzbekistan has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Uzbekistan did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention. It has never attended a meeting on cluster munitions or made a public statement on cluster munitions.

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Uzbekistan is not known to have produced or exported cluster munitions.

It inherited a stockpile of cluster munitions from the Soviet Union. According to Jane’s Information Group, KMG-U dispensers are in service with the state’s air force.[1] Uzbekistan also possesses Grad 122mm and Uragan 220mm surface-to-surface rockets, but it is not known if these include versions with submunition payloads.[2]



[1] Robert Hewson, ed., Jane’s Air-Launched Weapons, Issue 44 (Surrey, UK: Jane’s Information Group Limited, 2004), p. 848.

[2] International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2011 (London: Routledge, 2011), p. 280.