Mongolia

Mongolia is a state party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and has attended some CCW meetings on autonomous weapons since 2014.

Mongolia is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapon systems. Mongolia has not spoken independently on the need for a legally binding instrument.  At the Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in December 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’.^[1]Statement by the Non-Aligned Movement, Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 December 2021, … Continue reading