Ten-Year Review: Non-signatory Uzbekistan has never commented on the humanitarian concerns raised by cluster munitions or elaborated its position on joining the convention. Uzbekistan has never participated in a meeting of the convention. It has abstained from voting on each key annual United Nations (UN) resolution supporting the convention since the first was introduced in 2015.

Uzbekistan is not known to have used, produced, or exported cluster munitions, but it has inherited a stockpile from the Soviet Union.

Policy

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

Uzbekistan has never attended a meeting or made a public statement on cluster munitions.

Uzbekistan did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention.

In December 2019, Uzbekistan abstained from the vote on a key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution urging states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.”[1] Uzbekistan has abstained from voting on the annual UNGA resolution promoting the convention since it was first introduced in 2015.

Uzbekistan is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is a State Party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Uzbekistan is not known to have used, produced, or exported cluster munitions, but it possesses stocks of cluster munitions inherited from the break-up of the Soviet Union.

According to Jane’s Information Group, Uzbekistan’s air force possesses KMG-U dispensers.[2] Uzbekistan also possesses Grad 122mm and Uragan 220mm surface-to-surface rockets, but it is not known if these include versions with submunition payloads.[3]