Summary

Non-signatory Kyrgyzstan agreed to adopt the Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008 but never signed it and has taken no steps to join since then. Kyrgyzstan last participated in a meeting of the convention in 2012. It voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2020.

Kyrgyzstan states that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

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

Kyrgyzstan last commented on the convention in an April 2010 letter to the Monitor, when it said the matter of its accession to the convention was “under consideration.”[1]

Kyrgyzstan participated in the Oslo Process that led to the creation of the convention. It joined in the consensus adoption of the convention text in Dublin in May 2008, but did not attend the Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference in Oslo in December 2008.[2]

Kyrgyzstan participated as an observer in the convention’s meetings of States Parties in 2012 and 2013. It was invited, but did not attend, the first part of the convention’s Second Review Conference held virtually in November 2020.

In December 2020, Kyrgyzstan voted in favor of a key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution urging states outside the convention to “join as soon as possible.”[3] It has voted in favor of the annual resolution promoting the convention since 2016.[4]

Kyrgyzstan is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty, nor is it party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW).

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Kyrgyzstan informed the Monitor in 2010 that it has never used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[5]