Mauritius

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

Mauritius 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. Mauritius 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.^[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