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.

During the March 2026 session of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems (GGE on LAWS), Mexico stated ‘the [rolling] text we have before us is a solid basis for moving towards a negotiation on an instrument which allows us to regulate weapon systems of this kind.’ ^[1]Statement by Mexico, CCW GGE on LAWS, 2 March 2026, … Continue reading

In December 2025, Mexico co-sponsored and voted in favour of UN General Assembly Resolution 80/57 on lethal autonomous weapons systems. Mindful of the challenges and concerns autonomous weapons systems raise from humanitarian, legal, security, technological and ethical perspectives, Resolution 80/57 stresses the urgent need for the CCW to address the challenges and concerns posed by autonomous weapons systems, and calls upon the High Contracting Parties of the CCW to “work towards completing the set of elements for an instrument being developed within the mandate of the Group of Governmental Experts, with a view to future negotiation.”

At the CCW GGE on LAWS in September 2025, Mexico joined a group of 42 states delivering a joint statement calling for the group to begin negotiations of an instrument on the basis of its ‘rolling text,’ and stating that they were ready to do this.

At the 79th UN General Assembly First Committee in October 2024, Mexico co-sponsored and voted in favour of Draft Resolution L.77 on lethal autonomous weapons systems. Draft Resolution L.77 raises concerns about the ‘negative consequences and impact of autonomous weapon systems on global security and regional and international stability’ and stresses ‘the importance of the role of humans in the use of force to ensure responsibility and accountability and for States to comply with international law.’ It also notes ‘the repeated calls by the Secretary-General to urgently conclude negotiations of a legally binding instrument with prohibitions and regulations for autonomous weapons systems, in line with a two-tier approach.’ The Resolution will convene open informal consultations in 2025 over two days in New York, ‘to consider the report of the Secretary-General in full complementarity with and in a manner that supports the fulfilment of the mandate of the Group of Governmental Experts in order to further the international community’s understanding of the issues involved by discussing the full range of views received, including proposals and relevant aspects raised in the report that may thus far not have been discussed in detail in the Group of Governmental Experts.’

Speaking at the UN General Assembly First Committee in October 2024, Mexico emphasised that ‘Some arguments used by proponents of integrating artificial intelligence in the military field, especially those related to autonomous weapons, speak of a better selection and discrimination of military targets that, in theory, would protect civilians and other non-combatants. However, this argument reaffirms the vision of a more efficient militarization, rather than a preventive vision of conflicts.'^[2]Statement by Mexico, 79th UNGA First Committee, 08 October 2024. Mexico also stressed that it is ‘very worrying, from an ethical point of view, that autonomous weapons systems, based on algorithms, can decide on people’s lives.'^[3]Statement by Mexico, 79th UNGA First Committee, 24 October 2024} Mexico made a submission to the UN Secretary-General pursuant to Resolution 78/241 on autonomous weapons systems in May 2024. In … 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.^[4]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.’^[5]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