Cambodia

Cambodia has participated in one meeting of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (GGE on LAWS), in 2017. It stressed that autonomous weapons systems ‘should be utilised at the helm of meaningful human control in assurance to accountable and ethical judgement for preliminary deployment.’ Further elaborating on meaningful human control, Cambodia has stated that ‘machines should not be making life and death decisions for humanity under any circumstances.’^[1]Statement by Cambodia, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 13 November 2017, https://conf.unog.ch/digitalrecordings/index.html?embed=-h&mrid=988D8826-A7BB-41CD-ABCE-78C8AFAD5FCA#linkto-7756

Cambodia is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, which supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapon systems. Cambodia has not spoken independently on the need for a legally binding instrument. In a statement by the Non-Aligned Movement in the second session of the 2021 GGE on LAWS, the group stated that ‘there is an urgent need to pursue a legally binding instrument under the Convention that will contain prohibitions and regulations for addressing the humanitarian and international security challenges posed by emerging technologies’ in the area of autonomous weapon systems.^[2]Statement by the Non-Aligned Movement, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 28 September 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/LAWS-28-09-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; please note that this link … Continue reading