Summary: Non-signatory Papua New Guinea adopted the convention, but has not taken any steps to join it. Papua New Guinea voted in favor of a UN resolution on the convention in December 2016. It is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

PNG participated in the negotiation of the convention, but has never commented on why it has taken no steps to join since 2008.

PNG joined the Oslo Process in February 2008 and adopted the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Dublin on 30 May 2008. A government representative was present at the Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008, but indicated that he did not have the correct paperwork ready to sign the convention at the time.[1]

In December 2016, PNG 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.”[2] It also voted in favor of the first UNGA resolution on the convention in December 2015.[3]

PNG has never attended a meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

PNG has voted in favor of UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2016.[4]

PNG is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not a party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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