Guyana

Cluster Munition Ban Policy

Last updated: 03 July 2018

Summary: State Party Guyana acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 31 October 2014. It is not clear if Guyana will enact national implementation legislation. Guyana has never participated in a meeting of the convention but voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2017.

Guyana is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions, but it must submit its transparency report for the convention to formally confirm this status.

Policy        

The Republic of Guyana acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 31 October 2014 and became a State Party on 1 April 2015.

The status of Guyana’s national implementation measures for the convention is not known.

As of 27 June 2018, Guyana has not provided an initial Article 7 transparency report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions, originally due by 27 September 2015.

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

It has never attended a meeting of the convention, but government officials expressed interest in the convention on several occasions before Guyana acceded in October 2014.[1]

In December 2017, Guyana voted in favor of a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution, which calls on states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.”[2] It voted in favor of previous resolutions promoting implementation and universalization of the convention in 2015 and 2016.

Guyana has not elaborated its views on several important issues relating to its interpretation and implementation of the convention, including the prohibition on transit, the prohibition on assistance during joint military operations with states not party that may use cluster munitions, the prohibition on foreign stockpiling of cluster munitions, and the prohibition on investment in production of cluster munitions.

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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



[1] Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) meeting with Bibi Ally, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Guyana to the UN, New York, 19 October 2010.

[2]Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 72/54, 4 December 2017.