Maldives

Cluster Munition Ban Policy

Last updated: 11 July 2017

Summary: Non-signatory Maldives has never commented on its position on accession to the convention. It however voted in favor of a key UN resolution on the convention in December 2016. 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 commented on its position on joining the ban convention.

In December 2016, Maldives voted in favor of a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that urges states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.” [1] It also voted in favor of the first UNGA resolution on the convention in 2015.[2]

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 expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2016.[3] It has voted for Human Rights Council (HRC) resolutions condemning the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in September 2016.[4]

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.



[1]Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 71/45, 5 December 2016.

[2]Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 70/54, 7 December 2015.

[3]Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,” UNGA Resolution 71/203, 19 December 2016. Maldives voted in favor of similar resolutions in 2013–2015.

[4]Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 30 September 2016,” HRC Resolution 33/23, 6 October 2016.