Summary: Non-signatory Barbados has never made a statement to indicate its policy on accession to the convention or attended a meeting on cluster munitions. It is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

Barbados has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Barbados did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention. It has never made an official statement to elaborate its views on banning cluster munitions or attended a meeting on topic.

Nonetheless, Barbados voted in favor of the first UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution on implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 7 December 2015.[1] It has also voted in favor of UNGA resolutions condemning the use of cluster munitions in Syria, including Resolution 70/234 on 23 December 2015, which “deplores and condemns” the continued use.[2]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Barbados is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.