Saint Lucia
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
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.
[1] Saint Lucia attended a regional workshop on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in December 2013. It did not make a statement, but endorsed the workshop’s declaration calling for the “early establishment” of a cluster munition-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean. See, “Santiago Declaration: Toward the early establishment of a Cluster Munitions Free Zone in Latin America and the Caribbean,” presented to the conference by Christian Guillermet, Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the UN in Geneva, Santiago, 13 December 2013.
[2] “Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 72/54, 4 December 2017.
[3] “Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,” UNGA Resolution 72/191, 19 December 2017.
Mine Ban Policy
Saint Lucia signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 13 April 1999, becoming a State Party on 1 October 1999. It has never used, produced, exported, or imported antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. It has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty. As of July 2011, Saint Lucia had not submitted its initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report, due 29 March 2000.
Saint Lucia did not attend any Mine Ban Treaty meetings in 2010 or the first half of 2011.
Saint Lucia is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.