Saint Lucia
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
Summary: Non-signatory Saint Lucia has not commented on its position on joining the convention. It has attended one meeting on cluster munitions, in 2013. Saint Lucia is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
Policy
Saint Lucia has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
It has never made a public statement detailing its position on joining the convention.
Saint Lucia did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention and has never attended a meeting of the convention. It attended a regional workshop on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile, in December 2013.[1]
Saint Lucia voted in favor of a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution on the Convention on Cluster Munitions in December 2016, which urges states outside the convention to “join as soon as possible.”[2] Saint Lucia also voted in favor of a UNGA resolution on Syria in 2016 that expresses outrage at the use of cluster munitions.[3]
Saint Lucia is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Saint Lucia is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
[1] It did not make a statement, but endorsed the workshop’s declaration calling for the “early establishment” of a cluster munition-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean. See, “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.
[2] “Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 71/45, 5 December 2016. It voted for a similar resolution in December 2015. See, “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.
Mine Ban Policy
Saint Lucia signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 13 April 1999, becoming a State Party on 1 October 1999. It has never used, produced, exported, or imported antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. It has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty. As of July 2011, Saint Lucia had not submitted its initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report, due 29 March 2000.
Saint Lucia did not attend any Mine Ban Treaty meetings in 2010 or the first half of 2011.
Saint Lucia is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.