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Sierra Leone

Supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument.

Sierra Leone has participated in Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) meetings on autonomous weapons systems since 2014.

Sierra Leone supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. In a joint statement delivered by Sierra Leone on behalf of a group of eleven states at the 2021 CCW Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (GGE on LAWS), Sierra Leone called for ‘an all-inclusive approach to adopt a legally binding instrument to ensure the prohibition of autonomous weapons systems with a view to upholding human dignity and avoiding further international instability.'[1]Statement by Sierra Leone on behalf of Argentina, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Peru, Sierra Leone, Palestine and Uruguay, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on … Continue reading

Sierra Leone is a member of the African Group within the United Nations, and is also a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), both of which support the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems.

During the third session of the 2021 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.[2]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

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↑1Statement by Sierra Leone on behalf of Argentina, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Peru, Sierra Leone, Palestine and Uruguay, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 02 December 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/LAWS3-02-12-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; please note that this link leads to the full recording & transcript of the relevant meeting.
↑2Statement 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 the full recording & transcript of the relevant meeting.
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