Ten-Year Review: Non-signatory Suriname has expressed interest in the Convention on Cluster Munitions, but has not taken any steps to join it since 2013, when it last participated in a meeting of the convention. Suriname voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2019.

Suriname stated in 2013 that it has not used, produced, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

The Republic of Suriname has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Suriname has acknowledged the humanitarian concerns raised by cluster munitions and expressed interest in the convention, but has not taken any steps to join it.[1] No action appears to have been taken to accede to the convention since 2013, when the executive governing body considered a report recommending Suriname join the convention.[2]

Suriname attended one meeting of the Oslo Process that created the convention, in Vienna, Austria in December 2007. It did not participate in the Dublin negotiations or the Oslo Signing Conference in December 2008. Suriname attended a regional conference on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in September 2009.

Suriname has participated as an observer in meetings of the convention, but not since 2013.[3] It was invited, but did not attend, the Ninth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva in September 2019.

In December 2019, Suriname 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.”[4] It has voted in favor of the annual UNGA resolution promoting the convention since it was first introduced in 2015.

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Suriname stated in 2013 that it has not produced, used, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[5]