Guinea Bissau

Guinea Bissau is a state party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and has participated in some CCW meetings on autonomous weapons systems.

Guinea Bissau is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the African Union, both of which support the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Guinea Bissau has not spoken independently on the need for a legally binding instrument. During the third session of the 2021 CCW Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems, 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, 3 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 At the Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in 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.’^[2]Statement by the Non-Aligned Movement, Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 December 2021, … Continue reading