Summary: Signatory Djibouti has pledged to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions on several occasions, but the current status of the ratification process is not known. Djibouti has participated in several meetings of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, but not since 2012. Djibouti states that it has not used, produced, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Republic of Djibouti signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 30 July 2010.

The status of ratification is not known. Previously, in September 2012, Djibouti informed States Parties that ratification of the convention was underway, but provided no details on the status of the process or timeframe for completion.[1]

Djibouti participated in some meetings of the Oslo Process that created the convention. It did not attend the Oslo signing conference in December 2008, but signed at the UN in New York in July 2010 after making several positive statements in support of the convention.[2]

Djibouti participated in the first Meetings of States Parties of the convention in 2010, 2011, and 2012, but none since. It attended an intersessional meeting of the convention in Geneva once, in 2011. Djibouti has also participated in regional workshops on the convention, such as the one held in Togo in 2013.

On 7 December 2015, Djibouti voted in favor of the first UN General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution on the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which urges states outside the convention to “join as soon as possible.”[3] Djibouti voted in favor of a UNGA resolution on 23 December 2015 that expressed outrage at the “continuing indiscriminate use of...cluster munitions” in Syria.[4]

Djibouti is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Djibouti has stated several times that it has not used, produced, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[5]