Jordan

Jordan has attended a number of Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (GGE on LAWS) meetings.

Jordan supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Jordan is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Arab Group within the UN, both of which also support the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons.

At the March 2023 meeting of the CCW GGE on LAWS, Jordan stated that it ‘supports all efforts aiming at restricting the use and determining the independence of LAWS’, and further stated that weapons systems ‘should not be able to make decisions without human control’, as this amounts to a ‘flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the international law of human rights.'^[1]Statement by Jordan, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, March 2023, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1a/k1aqbi9pj7; please note that this link leads to the full video recording of the relevant … Continue reading

At the March 2023 meetings of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (GGE on LAWS), Qatar delivered a statement on behalf of the Arab Group, in which the group stated that autonomous weapons raise ‘moral, technical and human questions, not to mention issues of international peace and security’, and said that ‘we must limit and outlaw the utilisation of such systems.’ The statement reiterated ‘the importance of maintaining meaningful human control’ to limit the ‘negative impact’ of such systems, and called for ‘an international legally binding instrument.'^[2]Statement by Qatar on behalf of the Arab Group, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, March 2023, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1a/k1al2nqtt6; please note that this link leads to the full video … Continue reading