Grenada

Grenada is a state party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, but it has not participated in any CCW meetings on autonomous weapons systems to date.

Grenada is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Grenada has not spoken independently on the need for a legally binding instrument. At the Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in December 2021, the NAM 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 LAWS.’^[1]Statement by the Non-Aligned Movement, Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 December 2021, … Continue reading

Grenada is a member of the Caribbean Community that was represented by the government of Antigua and Barbuda at the United Nations General Assembly First Committee Meeting on 25 October 2019, which said in a statement at that meeting that ‘we must remain vigilant in our understanding of new and emerging weapon technologies’.^[2]Statement delivered by Antigua and Barbuda on behalf of CARICOM, UN General Assembly First Committee Meeting, 25 October 2019,  https://media.un.org/en/asset/k10/k106jlrx1l; please note that this … Continue reading

At the 2023 CARICOM conference on the human impacts of autonomous weapons, Grenada joined the CARICOM Declaration on Autonomous Weapons Systems, stating its commitment to ‘support the indispensability of meaningful human control over the use of force and thereby encourage the pursuit of an international legally binding instrument which incorporates prohibitions and regulations on AWS’, and to ‘collaborate on endeavours aimed at negotiating an international legally binding instrument that prohibits unpredictable or uncontrollable AWS capable of using force without meaningful human control, and prohibit those designed or employed to apply force against persons, while implementing regulations for other forms of AWS’.^[3]CARICOM Declaration on Autonomous Weapons Systems, https://www.caricom-aws2023.com/_files/ugd/b69acc_c1ffb97ed9024930a3205ae4e34c1b45.pdf