Summary: Non-signatory Kyrgyzstan agreed to adopt the convention in 2008 but did not sign and has taken no steps to join. It has participated as an observer in a couple of the convention’s meetings and voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution on the convention in December 2017. Kyrgyzstan has informed the Monitor that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Kyrgyz Republic has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Kyrgyzstan last commented on the convention in an April 2010 letter to the Monitor, which said the question of its accession to the convention was “under consideration.”[1]

Kyrgyzstan participated in the Oslo Process that led to the creation of the convention and joined in the consensus adoption of the convention text in Dublin in May 2008 but did not attend the Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008.[2]

Kyrgyzstan has participated as an observer in only two of the convention’s Meetings of States Parties, in 2012 and 2013.

Kyrgyzstan voted in favor of a key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution in December 2017, calling on states outside the convention to “join as soon as possible.”[3]

Kyrgyzstan has abstained from votes on UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2017.[4] In March 2018, Kyrgyzstan abstained from a vote on a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution condemning the use of cluster munitions in Syria.[5]

Kyrgyzstan is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty, nor is it party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

In 2010, Kyrgyzstan informed the Monitor that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[6]