Mexico

Mexico has participated in all Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) meetings on autonomous weapons systems. Mexico supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. At the UN General Assembly First Committee in 2018, Mexico stated that ‘it is necessary to discuss the legal, technical and ethical aspects of the application of the new technologies resulting in a legally binding instrument to ban autonomous weapons systems, as well as the regulation of armed drones.’^[1]Statement by Mexico, UN General Assembly First Committee, 26 October 2018, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1u/k1uam8n9o1; please note that this link leads to the full recording of the relevant meeting.

At the 77th UN General Assembly First Committee meeting in October 2022, Mexico said that ‘We are concerned by lethal autonomous weapons and especially weapons that are not subject to humanitarian control.'^[2]Statement by Mexico, 77th UN General Assembly First Committee, 19 October 2022, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1n/k1ndyy6wmw; please note that this link leads to the full recording & transcript … Continue reading

Mexico has highlighted the need to address ‘ethical, humanitarian, legal and security risks’ that arise from the use of autonomous weapons systems, and has also stressed the importance of meaningful human control over autonomous weapons, which it calls the ‘central aspect of the debate’ on the issue.^[3]Statement by Mexico, Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 December 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/RCHCP6-13-12-2021-PM_mp3_en.html; please note … Continue reading Further, in a joint statement with Brazil and Chile at the 2021 Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (GGE on LAWS), Mexico stated that ‘without meaningful human control, the development, deployment, and use of autonomous weapons systems that can delegate decisions on duplication and execution of force to algorithms would undermine international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and in particular, violate the principle of human dignity.’^[4]Statement by Brazil, Chile and Mexico, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 24 September 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/LAWS-24-09-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; please note that this link … Continue reading