Summary: Non-signatory Uzbekistan has never provided its views on cluster munitions or commented on its position on accession to the convention. It abstained from voting on a key UN resolution on the convention in December 2016 and has never participated in a meeting of the convention. Uzbekistan is not known to have used, produced, or exported cluster munitions, but has a stockpile inherited from the Soviet Union.

Policy

The Republic of Uzbekistan has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Uzbekistan has never attended a meeting on cluster munitions or made a public statement on cluster munitions.

Uzbekistan did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention.

In December 2016, Uzbekistan abstained from the vote on a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that calls on states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.”[1] It also abstained on the first UNGA resolution on the convention in December 2015.[2]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Uzbekistan is not known to have used, produced, or exported cluster munitions, but it has a stockpile inherited from the Soviet Union.

According to Jane’s Information Group, KMG-U dispensers are in service with Uzbekistan’s air force.[3] It also possesses Grad 122mm and Uragan 220mm surface-to-surface rockets, but it is not known if these include versions with submunition payloads.[4]