Tuvalu
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
Summary: Non-signatory Tuvalu has not elaborated its views on cluster munitions or position on accession to the convention. It voted in favor of a key UN resolution on the convention in December 2016. Tuvalu is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
Policy
Tuvalu has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Tuvalu did not participate in the Oslo Process and has never attended a meeting on cluster munitions or made a public statement on the convention.[1] In August 2016, a government representative told the Cluster Munition Coalition that Tuvalu is interested in joining the convention, but faces financial challenges.[2]
In December 2016, Tuvalu 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.”[3] It also voted in favor of the first UNGA resolution on the convention in December 2015.[4]
Tuvalu has voted in favor of UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2016.[5]
Tuvalu is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Tuvalu is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
[1] Tuvalu attended a regional workshop on explosive remnants of war in the Pacific held in Brisbane, Australia, on 27–28 June 2013. Email from Lorel Thompson, National Coordinator, Safe Ground, 30 March 2014.
[2] CMC meeting with Sunema Simati, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Tuvalu to the UN in New York, Geneva, 24 August 2016.
[3] “Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 71/45, 5 December 2016.
[4] “Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 70/54, 7 December 2015.
[5] “Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,” UNGA Resolution 71/203, 19 December 2016. Tuvalu voted in favor of similar resolutions in 2013–2015.