Summary: Non-signatory Brunei has not commented on its position on accession to the convention. It voted in favor of key UN resolutions on the convention in 2016 and 2015. Brunei participated in a meeting of the convention once, in 2010. It is not known to have used, produced, or transferred cluster munitions, while a government representative said in 2010 that Brunei does not possess cluster munitions.

Policy

Negara Brunei Darussalam has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Brunei has never made a public statement elaborating its position on joining the convention.[1]

Brunei participated in several meetings of the Oslo Process that created the convention and joined in the consensus adoption of the convention in Dublin on 30 May 2008. Brunei did not, however, attend the convention’s Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008.[2]

Brunei participated as an observer in the convention’s First Meeting of States Parties in Vientiane, Lao PDR, in November 2010. This remains its only attendance at a meeting of the convention.

In December 2016, Brunei voted in favor of a key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution, which urges states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “o vention on Cluster Muni”[3] Brunei voted in favor of the first UNGA resolution on the convention in December 2015.[4]

Brunei is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Brunei is not known to have used, produced, or transferred cluster munitions. In 2010, a government representative said that Brunei does not possess a stockpile of cluster munitions.[5]