Saint Lucia
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
UPDATE: On 15 September 2020, Saint Lucia acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, becoming the 110th State Party. The profile below shall be updated in due course to reflect this.
Ten-Year Review: Non-signatory Saint Lucia has never commented on the humanitarian concerns raised by cluster munitions or elaborated its position on joining the convention. Saint Lucia has never attended a meeting of the convention, but it voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2019.
Saint Lucia is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.
Policy
Saint Lucia has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Saint Lucia has never commented on the humanitarian concerns raised by cluster munitions or elaborated its position on joining the convention. It did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention.
Saint Lucia has never participated in a meeting of the convention, even as an observer. However, it has attended regional workshops on the convention, such as one hosted in St. George’s, Grenada in March 2020.[1]
In December 2019, Saint Lucia voted in favor of a key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution urging 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 2019.[3]
Saint Lucia is a 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 also 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, 13 December 2013.
[2] “Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions,” UN General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution 74/62, 12 December 2019.
[3] “Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic,” UNGA Resolution 74/169, 18 December 2019. Saint Lucia voted in favor of similar UNGA resolutions in 2017–2018.
Mine Ban Policy
Policy
Saint Lucia signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 13 April 1999, becoming a State Party on 1 October 1999. It has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty.
Saint Lucia has not attended any recent meetings of the treaty. It did not attend the Third Review Conference in Maputo in June 2014. As of October 2019, Saint Lucia had not submitted its initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report, due 29 March 2000.
Saint Lucia is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons, nor is it party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpile
Saint Lucia has never used, produced, exported, or imported antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes.