Has not yet declared support for the negotiation of a legally binding instrument.
Yemen is not a state party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).
At the 78th UN General Assembly First Committee in 2023, Yemen voted in favour of resolution L.56 on autonomous weapons systems, along with 163 other states. Resolution L.56 stressed the ‘urgent need for the international community to address the challenges and concerns raised by autonomous weapons systems’, and mandated the UN Secretary-General to prepare a report, reflecting the views of member and observer states on autonomous weapons systems and ways to address the related challenges and concerns they raise from humanitarian, legal, security, technological and ethical perspectives and on the role of humans in the use of force.
Yemen is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument.[1]See: Statement by Indonesia on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, UNGA First Committee, 20 October 2023. … Continue reading
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| ↑1 | See: Statement by Indonesia on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, UNGA First Committee, 20 October 2023. https://reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/1com/1com23/statements/20Oct_NAM.pdf |
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