Gabon

Gabon has attended some of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (GGE on LAWS) since 2014.

Gabon is a member of the African Group within the United Nations, and is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), both of which support the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Gabon has not spoken independently on the need for a legally binding instrument.

At the third session of the 2021 CCW Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems meeting, the African Group said that autonomous weapons systems raise a number of ‘ethical, legal, moral and technical questions’, and that it looks forward to ‘concrete policy recommendations including elements of a legally binding instrument, stipulating prohibitions and regulations’ on autonomous weapons systems.^[1]Statement by the African Group, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 3rd December 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/LAWS3-03-12-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; please note that this link leads to … Continue reading