Tunisia

Tunisia has participated in a number of Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons meetings on autonomous weapons systems since 2015.

Tunisia supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. At the 2018 UN General Assembly First Committee meeting, Tunisia said that, ‘faced with the development of new autonomous weapons systems, Tunisia calls for the regulation of the use of artificial intelligence for military purposes.'^[1]Statement by Tunisia, UN General Assembly First Committee, 17 October 2018, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1u/k1ufkkgcl4 (author’s translation); please note that this link leads to the full … Continue reading Tunisia is a member of the African Group and the Arab Group within the United Nations, and is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The African Group, the Arab Group and the NAM support the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems.  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 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