Summary: Non-signatory Dominica has not commented on cluster munitions since 2010, when it told the Monitor that it does not intend to accede to the convention. Dominica has never attended a meeting of the convention but voted in favor of a United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in 2016. Dominica says it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Commonwealth of Dominica has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Dominica has not commented on cluster munitions since an April 2010 letter from the Ministry of Finance to Cluster Munition Monitor, which stated that “the Government of Dominica has no interest in being a party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.”[1]

Dominica did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention, and it has never attended a meeting on cluster munitions.

Dominica voted in favor of key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions in 2015 and 2016, which urge states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.”[2] It was absent from the vote on a similar UNGA resolution in December 2017.[3]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Dominica stated in its 2010 letter to the Monitor that it has not used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[4]