14. Sri Lanka welcomes adoption of non-binding voluntary measures such as Codes of Conduct and political declarations on the use of AWS as progressive developments. However, such measures would only be of complementary value strengthening the normative framework on the issue given their insufficiency to address serious legal, ethical and security challenges involved. Similarly, legal reviews of weapon systems pursuant to already existing obligations under Art. 36 of the Additional Protocol I would not be an adequate in the absence of an internationally agreed binding regulation.
