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Morocco

Supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument.

Morocco has participated in Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (GGE on LAWS) since 2014.

Morocco supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. On 22 November 2018, at the CCW meeting of High Contracting Parties, Morocco stated that it ‘shares the opinion of the delegations that have pleaded for the negotiation of a legally binding instrument aimed at preventing the development and the production of any autonomous weapons systems.’[1]Statement by Morocco, Convention on Conventional Weapons Meeting of High Contracting Parties, November 22 2018, … Continue reading

Morocco is a member of the Arab Group within the United Nations, and is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The Arab Group and the NAM both support the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems.  At the 2020 UN General Assembly First Committee meeting, the NAM stated that there is an ‘urgent need to pursue a legally binding instrument’ on autonomous weapons systems’.[2]Statement by Indonesia on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, UN General Assembly First Committee, 9 October 2020, … Continue reading

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References
↑1Statement by Morocco, Convention on Conventional Weapons Meeting of High Contracting Parties, November 22 2018, http://reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/ccw/2018/hcp-meeting/statements/22Nov_Morocco2.pdf
↑2Statement by Indonesia on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, UN General Assembly First Committee, 9 October 2020, https://reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/1com/1com20/statements/9Oct_NAM.pdf
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