![]() ![]() The First Committee will meet again at 10 a.m., on Wednesday, 4 October, to continue its general debate. The country endorses the newly issued Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy. ![]() They need not necessarily be legally binding, but if widely respected and implemented, they can bring about more value and effect than unfulfilled treaties. The speaker for the Czech Republic said that flexible international instruments can be a viable way to manage emerging and disruptive technology and AI. Regarding lethal autonomous weapons, he supported negotiation of a legally binding instrument, and on cyberspace, he urged a permanent institutional dialogue. On military artificial intelligence (AI), he invited others to join the more than 60 States that have agreed to a call to action on responsible development and deployment. The Netherlands’ speaker said it is in the fundamental interest of the entire UN membership to develop clear norms for responsible behaviour. No State can deal with the consequences of nuclear weapons use, he said, adding that those arsenals do not guarantee regional or global stability.Īlso dominating today’s debate was preventing the weaponization of fast-emerging technology. The representative of Morocco said that the existential threat of nuclear weapons use, following the global pandemic, must not allow another health crisis. ![]() This dismal reality emphasizes the urgent need for the total, irreversible and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons.Ĭanada’s speaker pointed out that massive, global and consequential events, like the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian Federation’s illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine, stopped being unprecedented and started shaping the modern context of international peace and security. He rejected an arms race, not only with weapons of mass destruction, but also conventional weapons, including in outer space and cyberspace. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has been essential in preventing nuclear proliferation for over five decades, but its implementation gap, especially in Article VI, constitutes a serious risk to the Treaty’s normative strength and ultimately to a world free of nuclear weapons, she said.Īdding to that was Egypt’s delegate who warned that rising global geopolitical tensions and the deteriorating international security environment “cast their gloomy shadow”. She said that the threat of nuclear weapons use was the animating force behind the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the reason for her country’s signature. “The doomsday clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight - the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been,” warned Liechtenstein’s representative, condemning the Russian Federation’s nuclear sabre-rattling in the context of its aggression against Ukraine and denouncing its decision to deploy nuclear weapons to Belarus. ![]() The risk of nuclear weapons use is real and it is crystal clear that as long as they exist, the world will never be a safer place, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) heard today, as it continued its wide-ranging general debate. Preventing Weaponization of Fast-Emerging Technologies Also Discussed ![]()
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