Summary: State Party Cape Verde ratified the convention on 19 October 2010. It has attended a couple of the convention’s meetings, but not since 2012. Cape Verde voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting implementation of the convention in December 2017.

Cape Verde has not provided its initial transparency report for the convention, originally due in 2011, which is required to formally confirm it has not used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Republic of Cape Verde signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008, ratified on 19 October 2010, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 April 2011.

It is not known if Cape Verde will undertake national implementation measures such as legislation to implement and enforce the provisions of the convention.[1]

As of 25 June 2018, Cape Verde still has not provided its initial Article 7 transparency report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which was originally due 28 October 2011.

Cape Verde did not participate in any meetings of the Oslo Process that created the convention before it signed in December 2008.

Cape Verde participated in the convention’s Meetings of States Parties in 2011 and 2012. It has not attended a meeting of the convention since 2012.

In December 2017, Cape Verde voted in favor of a key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution promoting the implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[2]

Cape Verde has also voted in favor of UNGA resolution expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2017.[3]

Cape Verde has not elaborated its views on several important issues relating to the convention’s interpretation and implementation, such as the prohibition on transit and foreign stockpiling of cluster munitions on the territory of States Parties, the prohibition on assistance with prohibited acts in joint military operations, and the prohibition on investment in cluster munition production.

Cape Verde is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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