Hungary

Hungary has participated in a number of Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) meetings on autonomous weapons systems since 2015.

Hungary has not yet declared its position on the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. At the 2021 meeting of the UN General Assembly First Committee, Hungary said that the CCW ‘provides an appropriate framework to address the potential challenges posed by lethal autonomous weapons systems.’^[1]Statement by Hungary, UN General Assembly First Committee, 11 October 2021, https://reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/1com/1com21/statements/11Oct_Hungary.pdf Hungary is a member of the European Union, which supports the creation of a ‘normative and operational framework’ on autonomous weapons systems.^[2]Statement by the European Union, UN General Assembly First Committee, 09 October 2020, https://reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/1com/1com20/statements/9Oct_EU.pdf