Summary: Non-signatory Tonga has never made a public statement elaborating its position on joining the convention and has not participated in a meeting of the convention. Tonga is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Kingdom of Tonga has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Tonga has never made a public statement to elaborate its policy on banning cluster munitions.

Tonga attended one meeting of the Oslo Process, the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions in February 2008, but did not endorse the Wellington Declaration supporting the negotiation of an instrument prohibiting cluster munitions. Tonga did not attend the subsequent Dublin negotiations or the Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference in Oslo.

Tonga has never participated in a meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[1]

Tonga is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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