Summary: Non-signatory Barbados has never commented on cluster munitions or its position on acceding to the convention. It voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution on the convention in December 2017. Barbados is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

Barbados has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Barbados did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention. It has never made an official statement to elaborate its views on banning cluster munitions or attended a meeting on the topic.

In December 2017, Barbados voted in favor of key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions using states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.”[1] It voted in favor of previous UN resolutions promoting the convention in 2015 and 2016.

Barbados has also voted in favor of UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2017.[2]

Barbados is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It has not joined the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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