Summary

Niue acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 6 August 2020 and became a State Party on 1 February 2021.

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 entered into force for Niue on 1 February 2021.

Niue’s initial Article 7 transparency report for the convention is due by 30 July 2021.

Niue has not indicated if it will enact specific legislation to govern and enforce its implementation of the convention.

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.[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 (CCW).

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.

Policy

Niue signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 15 April 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 March 1999. It has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty.

Niue has not attended any recent meetings of the treaty. Niue submitted its fourth Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report in 2007, but has not submitted subsequent reports.

Niue is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons, nor is it party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Production, transfer, stockpile destruction, and retention

Niue has never used, produced, exported, or imported antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes.