Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea is not a state party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). Equatorial Guinea supports the negotiation of legally binding rules on autonomous weapons systems.

At the 78th UN General Assembly First Committee in 2023, Equatorial Guinea voted in favour of resolution L.56 on autonomous weapons systems, along with 163 other states. Resolution L.56 stressed the ‘urgent need for the international community to address the challenges and concerns raised by autonomous weapons systems’, and mandated the UN Secretary-General to prepare a report, reflecting the views of member and observer states on autonomous weapons systems and ways to address the related challenges and concerns they raise from humanitarian, legal, security, technological and ethical perspectives and on the role of humans in the use of force.

Speaking on autonomous weapons during First Committee in 2023, Equatorial Guinea recommended ‘that States adopt new legally binding rules to regulate autonomous weapons systems to ensure that a sufficient degree of human control and discernment is maintained in the use of force.'^[1]Statement by Equatorial Guinea, UN General Assembly First Committee, 11 October 2023, … Continue reading