Summary: Non-signatory Equatorial Guinea has never commented publicly on cluster munitions or its position on accession to the convention. However, it voted in favor of the first UN resolution on the convention in 2015. Equatorial Guinea is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

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

The government’s position on joining remains unknown as Equatorial Guinea has never commented publicly on cluster munitions or its position on accession to the convention.[1]

In December 2015, Equatorial Guinea 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.”[2] However, it did not vote on a similar UNGA resolution on the convention in December 2016.[3]

Equatorial Guinea participated in one meeting of the Oslo Process that created the convention, where it called for an end to the production and use of cluster munitions and for the destruction of all stockpiles.[4]

In December 2016, Equatorial Guinea voted in favor of a UN General Assembly resolution that expresses outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria.[5]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Equatorial Guinea is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.