Mali

Mali has attended some Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) meetings on autonomous weapons systems.

Mali 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. Mali has not spoken independently on the need for a legally binding instrument. At 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 weapon systems’.^[1]Statement by the African Group, CCW Group of Governmental Experts 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 leads to … Continue reading At the 2014 CCW meeting of experts, Mali stated that ‘lethal autonomous weapons systems may not have the ability to be discriminate and could be a step backwards for the international community… although Mali does not yet have a policy in the area of LAWS, it reaffirms its determination to remain mobilized on the issue’.^[2]Statement by Mali, CCW meeting of experts, 13-14 May 2014, https://reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/ccw/2014/statements/13May_Mali.pdf