Summary: Non-signatory Brunei has not commented on cluster munitions or its position on joining the convention. It voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution on the convention in December 2018. Brunei is not known to have used, produced, or transferred cluster munitions, while a government representative said in 2010 that Brunei does not possess cluster munitions.

Policy

Negara Brunei Darussalam has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Brunei has never made a public statement elaborating its position on joining the convention. [1]

Brunei participated in several meetings of the Oslo Process that created the convention and joined in the consensus adoption of the convention in Dublin on 30 May 2008. Brunei did not, however, attend the convention’s Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008. [2]

Brunei participated as an observer in the convention’s First Meeting of States Parties in Vientiane, Lao PDR in November 2010. This remains its only attendance at a meeting of the convention.

In December 2018, Brunei voted in favor of a key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution, which urges states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible." [3] Brunei has voted in favor of the annual UNGA resolution promoting the convention since it was first introduced in 2015.

Brunei is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Brunei is not known to have used, produced, or transferred cluster munitions. In 2010, a defense representative said that Brunei does not possess a stockpile of cluster munitions. [4]