Togo

Togo has attended some Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons meetings on autonomous weapons systems.

Togo is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and the African Group, both of which support the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Togo 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 weapon systems, 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 weapon 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