Summary

Non-signatory Suriname has expressed interest in the convention, but has not taken any steps to join it. Suriname voted in favor of a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2020. It last participated in a meeting of the convention in 2013

Suriname has stated 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 it has not taken any steps to join it.[1] Previously, in 2013, the governing executive 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 last participated as an observer in meetings of the convention in 2013.[3] 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, 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 has voted for UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2020.[5]

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

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Suriname stated in 2013 that it has not produced, used, or stockpiled cluster munitions.[6]