Niue

Cluster Munition Ban Policy

Last updated: 01 October 2020

Ten-Year Review: Niue acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 6 August 2020.

Niue has not used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions, but must provide an initial Article 7 transparency report to confirm its cluster munition-free status.

Policy

Niue acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 6 August 2020 and the convention will enter into force for the country on 1 February 2021.

Niue has not indicated whether it plans to prepare specific legislation to guide and enforce its implementation of the convention.

Niue’s initial Article 7 transparency report for the convention is due by 28 August 2021.

Niue supported calls to ban cluster munitions during the Oslo Process which created the convention. Niue participated in the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions held in February 2008 and endorsed the Wellington Declaration, agreeing to the conclusion of a legally binding instrument.[1] Niue did not however, attend the subsequent Dublin negotiations of the convention in May 2008, or the convention’s Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008.

Niue deposited its accession instrument to the convention with the United Nations (UN) in New York on 6 August 2020, which marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Japan.[2]

Niue has never attended a meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Niue has not provided its view on certain important issues related to the convention’s interpretation and implementation, including Article 21 on relations with states not party to the convention and the prohibitions on transit, foreign stockpiling, and investment in production.

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Niue is not known to have ever used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions. Niue must provide a transparency report to confirm its cluster munition-free status.



[1] Statement of Niue, Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions, 22 February 2008. Notes by the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC).

[2] On 6 August 2020, Niue also deposited instruments of accession to the Arms Trade Treaty and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.