Five-Year Review: State Party Monaco ratified the convention on 21 September 2010 and provided an initial transparency report in 2011 confirming it has never produced or stockpiled cluster munitions. It is not known to have ever used or transferred the weapons. Monaco has not declared any national implementation measures to enforce the convention’s provisions. It attended last attended a meeting of the convention in 2010.

Policy

The Principality of Monaco signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008, ratified on 21 September 2010, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 March 2011.

Monaco has not declared any national implementation measures such as legislation to enforce the provisions of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, as required by Article 9.[1]

Monaco submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report for the Convention on Cluster Munitions in August 2011 and provided annual updates indicating no change in 2012 and 2014.[2] As of 4 June 2015, it had yet to submit an updated report, due by 30 April.

Monaco attended one meeting of the Oslo Process that created the convention (Vienna in December 2007) as well as the Oslo Signing Conference in December 2008.

It has not participated in any meetings of the convention since attending the First Meeting of States Parties in Vientiane, Lao PDR in November 2010.

Monaco has voted in favor of recent UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions condemning the use of cluster munitions in Syria, including Resolution 69/189 on 18 December 2014, which expressed “outrage” at the continued use.[3]

Monaco has not elaborated its views on a number of issues important for the interpretation and implementation of the convention, such as the prohibition on assistance with prohibited acts in joint military operations, the prohibitions on foreign stockpiling and transit of cluster munitions, and the prohibition on investment in cluster munition production.

Monaco is a State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is also party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Monaco has declared that it does not produce or stockpile cluster munitions.[4] It is not known to have ever used or transferred cluster munitions.