Haiti
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
Summary: Signatory Haiti last indicated in 2012 that it was considering ratification of the convention but the current status of that process is unknown. It voted in favor of a key UN resolution on the convention in December 2016. Haiti has attended two Meetings of States Parties of the convention, most recently in 2014. Haiti is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
Policy
The Republic of Haiti signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 28 October 2009.
The status of Haiti’s ratification of the convention is not currently known. Previously, in 2012, the president of the senate said that the National Assembly was considering ratification of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[1]
Haiti did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Haiti participated in the convention’s Meetings of State Parties in 2013 and 2014, but not since then. It attended a workshop on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile, in December 2013.[2]
In December 2016, Haiti voted in favor of a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that urges states outside the convention to “join as soon as possible.”[3] It has also voted in favor of UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria.[4]
Haiti is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Haiti is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
[1] “Haïti – Politique: Assemblée Nationale en vue de ratifier des accords internationaux” (“Haiti – Politics: National Assembly to ratify international agreements”), Haiti Libre, 30 January 2012.
[2] The meeting issued a declaration urging the “early establishment” of a cluster munitions-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean. “Santiago Declaration Toward the early establishment of a Cluster Munitions Free Zone in Latin America and the Caribbean,” presented to the Conference by Christian Guillermet, Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the UN in Geneva, Santiago, 13 December 2013.
[3] “Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 71/45, 5 December 2016. Haiti was absent from the vote on a previous UNGA resolution on the treaty in 2015. “Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 70/54, 7 December 2015.
[4] Haiti did not participate in the vote on “Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,” UNGA Resolution 70/234, 23 December 2015. However, Haiti voted in favor of similar resolutions on 15 May and 18 December 2013, and 18 December 2014.
Mine Ban Policy
The Republic of Haiti signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 15 February 2006, becoming a State Party on 1 August 2006. Haiti has never used, produced, exported, imported, or stockpiled antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. Haiti has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty. Haiti submitted its initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report on 17 February 2009, but has not provided subsequent reports.
Haiti did not attend any Mine Ban Treaty meetings in 2011 or the first half of 2012.
Haiti is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.