Summary: Non-signatory Equatorial Guinea has never commented publicly on cluster munitions or its position on accession to the convention. However, it voted in favor of a key UN resolution on the convention in December 2017. Equatorial Guinea is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

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

The government’s position on joining remains unknown because Equatorial Guinea has never commented publicly on cluster munitions or its position on accession to the convention.[1]

Equatorial Guinea participated in one meeting of the Oslo Process that created the convention, where it called for an end to the production and use of cluster munitions and for the destruction of all stockpiles.[2]

In December 2017, Equatorial Guinea voted in favor of a key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that calls on states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.”[3] It voted in favor of the first UNGA resolution on the convention in 2015.[4]

In December 2016, Equatorial Guinea voted in favor of a UN General Assembly resolution that expresses outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria.[5] In December 2017, it abstained from the vote on a similar resolution.[6]

Equatorial Guinea is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Equatorial Guinea is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.