Madagascar

Madagascar has participated in some Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) meetings on autonomous weapons systems. At a 2013 meeting of the CCW High Contracting Parties, Madagascar said that ‘it is essential for the CCW forum to consider issues of ethics and morality surrounding the use of these weapons systems’.^[1]Statement by Madagascar, Convention on Conventional Weapons Meeting of High Contracting Parties, 14 November 2013, … Continue reading

Madagascar is a member of the African Group and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), both of which support the negotiation of a legally-binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Madagascar 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 (GGE on LAWS), 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’.^[2]Statement by the African Group, CCW Group of Governmental Experts meeting 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 … Continue reading