Switzerland

Unclear or shifting (AMBIG), since 2024-05-25, points both ways (AMBIGUOUS)

Switzerland's own words point two ways. In its 2024 submission it backs the two-tier approach of specific prohibitions and regulations and supports negotiating an international instrument, and in 2025 it backed launching negotiations in the Geneva weapons convention. That points toward a treaty with bans. In the records opened here, it never says the instrument should be legally binding.

Switzerland supports the two-tier approach of prohibitions plus regulations as the center of any instrument.

Switzerland sees strong value in, and has been supportive of, the so-called two-tier approach consisting of specific prohibitions and regulations

Views of Switzerland on lethal autonomous weapons systems in response to the request of the UN Secretary-General (resolution 78/241), 2024-05-25 source

Switzerland supports negotiating an international instrument.

Switzerland is actively supporting the negotiation of an international instrument to prevent, above all, the emergence of systems

Views of Switzerland on lethal autonomous weapons systems in response to the request of the UN Secretary-General (resolution 78/241), 2024-05-25 source

In 2025 Switzerland backs launching negotiations in the CCW once the expert group's mandate ends.

Switzerland underlines its support for launching negotiations following the completion of the GGE’s mandate and considers the CCW the most suitable forum for this purpose.

80th session of the General Assembly, First Committee, thematic debate on conventional weapons: statement by Switzerland (23 October 2025), 2025-10-23 source