State dossier
Burkina Faso
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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 2024-10-23, interpreted (INFERRED)
In a French-language statement to the UN in October 2024, Burkina Faso said it is urgent to draw up a legally binding instrument on lethal autonomous weapons. It did not say what the instrument should ban. In 2025 it added that human control must stay central. That is support for a treaty with its terms left open.
Burkina Faso calls it urgent to develop a legally binding instrument on lethal autonomous weapons systems.
In paragraph 5, Burkina Faso says it shares the Non-Aligned Movement's view that lethal autonomous weapons systems raise many ethical, legal, moral and technical questions, and that it considers it urgent to develop a legally binding instrument on these systems to meet the humanitarian and international security challenges they pose. No prohibitions are mentioned. Burkina Faso: statement at the First Committee thematic debate on conventional weapons, 79th session (French), 2024-10-23 source
In 2025 Burkina Faso says human control must be central to autonomous weapon systems.
Regarding artificial intelligence and autonomous weapon systems, Burkina Faso considers that human control must be a central feature.
General Assembly First Committee, 80th session, 4th meeting, automatic speech recognition transcript, 2025-10-10 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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