Summary: Non-signatory Saint Lucia has never commented on cluster munitions and its position on acceding to the convention, but voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2017. Saint Lucia is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

Saint Lucia has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

It has never made a public statement detailing its views on cluster munitions and position on joining the convention.

Saint Lucia did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention. It has never attended a meeting of the convention.[1]

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

Saint Lucia has voted in favor of UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2017.[3]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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