State dossier
Albania
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What does it want?
Position: wants a treaty, terms open (LBI-OPEN). Supports negotiating a treaty but has not said what it should prohibit.
Wants a treaty, terms open (LBI-OPEN), since 2024-11-14, stated directly (EXPLICIT)
At the November 2024 meeting of the Geneva weapons convention, the CCW, Albania said the expert group's mandate should be strengthened with the aim of concluding a new legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons. It did not say what that instrument should ban. On this site's scale that is a treaty with its terms left open.
Albania wants the GGE mandate strengthened toward a new legally binding instrument on LAWS.
mandate of the GGE should be further strengthened aiming the conclusion of a new legally binding instrument on LAWS in compliance with International Humanitarian Law
Statement by Albania at the 2024 Meeting of High Contracting Parties to the CCW, 2024-11-14 source
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How did it vote?
Yes on all three UN votes on autonomous weapons.
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What has it signed?
Being on a list is a fact. Not being on one is not opposition.
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When has it spoken?
Every time it went on the record, dated.
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What rules has it written at home?
Its own military policy.
Military policy not yet reviewed by this site, as of 2026-11-04.
The record
The documents on file.
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