Saint Lucia
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
Summary: Non-signatory Saint Lucia has never commented on cluster munitions or participated in a meeting of the convention. It voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2018. 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 2018, which urges states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.” [2] Saint Lucia has voted in favor of this annual UNGA resolution promoting the convention since it was first introduced in 2015.
Saint Lucia has also voted in favor of UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2018. [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 73/54, 5 December 2018.
[3] “Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,” UNGA Resolution 73/182, 17 December 2018. Saint Lucia voted in favor of a similar UNGA resolution in December 2017.