Tuvalu
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
Summary: Non-signatory Tuvalu has never commented on cluster munitions or its position on joining the convention. It attended a regional workshop on cluster munitions in June 2019 and voted in favor of a United Nations (UN) resolution on the convention in December 2018. Tuvalu is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
Policy
Tuvalu has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Officials indicate that Tuvalu is interested in joining the convention but faces financial challenges. [1] In February 2018, Tuvalu attended a Pacific Conference on Conventional Weapons Treaties and adopted a declaration that acknowledges “the clear moral and humanitarian rationale for joining” the Convention on Cluster Munitions. [2]
Tuvalu did not participate in the Oslo Process.
Tuvalu has never commented on cluster munitions or attended a meeting of the convention. [3] It attended a regional workshop on the convention in Manila, Philippines on 18–19 June 2019. [4]
In December 2018, Tuvalu voted in favor of a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that urges states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.” [5] It has voted in favor of the annual UNGA resolution promoting the convention since it was first introduced in 2015.
Tuvalu is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Tuvalu is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
[1] Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) meeting with Sunema Simati, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Tuvalu to the UN in New York, Geneva, 24 August 2016.
[2] According to the declaration, during the meeting “some states not yet party to the Convention undertook to positively consider membership of it.” “Auckland Declaration on Conventional Weapons Treaties,” Pacific Conference on Conventional Weapons Treaties, Auckland, New Zealand, 12–14 February 2018.
[3] Tuvalu attended a regional workshop on explosive remnants of war in the Pacific held in Brisbane, Australia on 27–28 June 2013. Email from Lorel Thompson, National Coordinator, Safe Ground, 30 March 2014.
[4] “Asia-Pacific Workshop on CCM Universalization,” Convention on Cluster Munitions Quarterly Newsletter, April 2019.
[5] “Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UNGA Resolution 73/54, 5 December 2018.