Equatorial Guinea
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
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.
[1] In October 2010, a government representative told the CMC that Equatorial Guinea is concerned with the humanitarian consequences of cluster munitions and committed to follow-up on the status of accession to the convention. CMC meeting with Toribio-Obiang Mba Meye, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Equatorial Guinea to the UN in New York, New York, 22 October 2010. Notes by the CMC.
[2] “Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 70/54, 7 December 2015.
[3] “Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 71/45, 5 December 2016.
[4] Statement of Equatorial Guinea, Vienna Conference on Cluster Munitions, 6 December 2007. Notes by the CMC/Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
[5] “Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,” UNGA Resolution 71/203, 19 December 2016.
Mine Ban Policy
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea acceded to the Mine Ban Treaty on 16 September 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 March 1999. Equatorial Guinea has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty. Equatorial Guinea has not submitted its initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report, which was due 28 August 1999. Equatorial Guinea did not attend any Mine Ban Treaty meetings in 2011 or the first half of 2012.
Equatorial Guinea has never produced antipersonnel mines. It has not formally declared the presence or absence of stockpiled antipersonnel mines, but it is not believed to possess a stockpile. Authorities have never responded to a Monitor inquiry into an allegation of antipersonnel mine use on the island of Bioko in 2004.
Equatorial Guinea is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.