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Cuba

Many States not party acknowledge and support, to various degrees, the humanitarian goals of the Convention. This page presents the latest information available or expressed by the State not party, vis-à-vis the Convention. The information is largely drawn from the Convention's formal and informal meetings, President's Observations, UN Office for Disarmament records, and/or Landmine Monitor if noted.

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  • The State not party has participated as Observer in the following meetings of the Convention
    • 1MSP, 2MSP, 3MSP, 4MSP, First Review Conference, 7MSP, Second Review Conference, 13MSP 

 

Since 1997, the UN General Assembly has adopted a “Resolution on the Implementation of the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction”.

The State not party most recently has voted as follows,

  • Abstained - Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2022 Seventy-seventh session
  • Abstained - General Assembly Seventy-sixth session, First Committee, 2 November 2021
  • Abstained - Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 12 December 2019 Seventy-fourth session 
  • Abstained - 2018 UNGA First Committee Convention Resolution

The State not party has indicated,

  • "We fully share the legitimate humanitarian concerns associated with the indiscriminate and irresponsible use of anti-personnel mines and will continue to support all efforts that, while maintaining a necessary balance between humanitarian issues and national security issues, seek to eliminate the terrible effects of the indiscriminate and irresponsible use of anti-personnel mines on the civilian populations and economies of many countries.Our country therefore cannot renounce the use of anti-personnel mines in our efforts to preserve our sovereignty and territorial integrity, in accordance with the legitimate right to self-defence enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. Cuba is a State party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, including its original Protocol II, and fully complies with the prohibitions and restrictions on mine use established in the Convention. We reaffirm our commitment to the implementation of a strict policy to guarantee the responsible use of anti-personnel mines for exclusively defensive purposes and to safeguard the national security of Cuba. (Explanation of vote, United Nations General Assembly resolution on the implementation of the Convention, 2021)

 Snapshots of Cuba during Convention-related activities on Flickr.