Niger

Niger is a state party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), but has not participated in any CCW meetings on autonomous weapons systems to date.

Niger is a member of the African Group and the Non-Aligned Movement, both of which support the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Niger 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 2020 UN General Assembly First Committee meeting, the NAM said 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, 09 October 2020, … Continue reading