Haiti

Cluster Munition Ban Policy

Last updated: 25 June 2019

Summary: Haiti has pledged to ratify the convention on several occasions since it signed in 2009. It voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2018. Haiti has attended several meetings of the convention, most recently in 2017. Haiti is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Republic of Haiti signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 28 October 2009.

Haiti has pledged to ratify the convention on several occasions since 2009. In September 2017, Haiti told States Parties that a “draft decree of ratification of the convention has been submitted for assessment by the legislature.” [1] Previously, the Senate president said in 2012 that the National Assembly was considering ratification of the convention. [2]

Haiti did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions but signed the convention on 28 October 2009.

Haiti has attended several meetings of the convention, most recently in September 2017. [3] It was invited to, but did not attend, the Eighth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva in September 2018.

In December 2018, Haiti voted in favor of a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that urges states outside the convention to “join as soon as possible.” [4] Haiti has voted in favor of the annual UNGA resolution promoting implementation of the convention since 2016. [5]

Haiti has also voted in favor of UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2018. [6]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

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



 [1] Unofficial translation. “Aujourd’hui, ma delegation est en mesure de confirmer que le projet de décret de ratification de la Convention sur les armes à sous-munitions a été soumis à l’appréciation du pouvoir législatif.” Statement of Haiti, Convention on Cluster Munitions Seventh Meeting of States Parties, Geneva, 4 September 2017. Official audio recording, UN Digital Recordings Portal.

 [2]Haïti – Politique: Assemblée Nationale en vue de ratifier des accords internationaux” (“Haiti – Politics: National Assembly to ratify international agreements”), Haiti Libre, 30 January 2012.

 [3] Haiti participated in the convention’s Meetings of States Parties in 2013, 2014, and 2017.

 [4]Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 73/54, 5 December 2018.

 [5] Haiti was absent from the vote on the first UNGA resolution on the convention in 2015.

 [6]Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,” UNGA Resolution 73/182, 17 December 2018.


Mine Ban Policy

Last updated: 18 December 2019

The Republic of Haiti signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 15 February 2006, becoming a State Party on 1 August 2006. Haiti has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty.

Haiti occasionally attends meetings of the treaty; most recently the Fourteenth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva in November–December 2015, and prior to that the Twelfth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva in December 2012. Haiti did not attend the Third Review Conference in Maputo in June 2014. Haiti submitted its initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report on 17 February 2009, but has not provided subsequent reports.

On 5 December 2018, Haiti voted in favor of UN General Assembly resolution 73/61 promoting universalization and implementation of the convention, as it has done in previous years.[1]

Haiti is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons. It is a signatory state to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Haiti has never used, produced, exported, imported, or stockpiled antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes.



[1] “Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction,” UNGA Resolution 73/61, 5 December 2018.