Summary: State Party Mali ratified the convention on 30 June 2010. Mali has expressed its desire to enact national implementation legislation for the convention and it has participated in most of the convention’s meetings, most recently in 2014. Mali provided an initial transparency report for the convention in May 2016, confirming that it has never produced or stockpiled cluster munitions. Mali states that it has never used or transferred cluster munitions.

Policy

The Republic of Mali signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008, ratified on 30 June 2010, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 December 2010.

Since 2012, government officials have expressed Mali’s desire to incorporate the Convention on Cluster Munitions into domestic law, but in May 2016 Mali reported no national implementation measures.[1]

Mali provided its initial Article 7 transparency report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 May 2016, covering calendar year 2015. It has not submitted an update for calendar year 2016, due by 30 April 2017.

Mali actively participated in the Oslo Process that created the convention and advocated for a total ban on cluster munitions without exception and with immediate effect.[2]

Mali has participated in most Meetings of States Parties to the convention, most recently in 2014. It did not attend the First Review Conference in September 2015, however it participated in one of the convention’s intersessional meetings in Geneva, in June 2011. It has attended regional workshops on cluster munitions, most recently in Lome, Togo, in May 2013.

Mali voted in favor of a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution promoting implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in December 2016.[3]

Mali has not yet elaborated its views on certain important issues regarding interpretation and implementation of the convention, such as the prohibition on foreign stockpiling and transit of cluster munitions, and the prohibition on investment in cluster munition production. During the treaty negotiations Mali argued against including Article 21 on interoperability (relations with states not party).[4]

Mali is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

In its initial Article 7 transparency report provided May 2016, Mali confirms that it has never produced or stockpiled cluster munitions.[5] Mali has stated several times that it has never transferred or used cluster munitions.[6]