Summary: Non-signatory Maldives has never articulated its views on its position on accession to the convention. It voted in favor of a UN resolution on the convention in December 2015 and participated as an observer in a meeting of the convention in 2010. Maldives is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

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

Maldives has never made a public statement detailing its position on joining the ban convention.

On 7 December 2015, Maldives 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.”[1]

Maldives did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Its first, and to date only, participation in a meeting of the convention was in November 2010, when Maldives attended the First Meeting of States Parties in Vientiane, Lao PDR as an observer. Maldives has voted in favor of UNGA resolutions condemning the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2015.[2] It has voted for Human Rights Council resolutions condemning the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in October 2015.[3]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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