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Côte d'Ivoire
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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 2025-10-14, interpreted (INFERRED)
At the UN in October 2025, Côte d'Ivoire called for autonomous weapons to be regulated and pointed to the 2024 West African meeting in Freetown, which called for new binding rules. In 2026 it backed a normative framework on these weapons. That reads as support for a binding instrument without saying what it should ban. Both statements come from machine transcripts of the English interpretation.
Cote d'Ivoire appeals for regulation of lethal autonomous weapon systems.
an appeal for regulation of lethal autonomous weapon systems and for their responsible use
General Assembly First Committee, 80th session, 6th meeting, automatic speech recognition transcript, 2025-10-14 source
Cote d'Ivoire presents the Freetown outcome as a call for new binding rules.
the need to strengthen existing governance mechanisms and to draft new binding rules to regulate these weapons
General Assembly First Committee, 80th session, 6th meeting, automatic speech recognition transcript, 2025-10-14 source
In 2026 Cote d'Ivoire supports a normative framework on lethal autonomous weapons systems.
the crafting of a meaningful, normative framework on lethal autonomous weapons systems, guaranteeing respect for international law and appropriate human oversight
General Assembly First Committee, 81st session, 7th meeting, automatic speech recognition transcript, 2026-10-13 source
Corroboration only. The ECOWAS communique Cote d'Ivoire cites supports a binding instrument with prohibitions and regulations.
To support the urgent negotiation of a legally binding instrument to regulate autonomous weapons systems, with specific prohibitions and regulations
Communique of the Regional Conference on the Peace and Security Aspects of Autonomous Weapons Systems: An ECOWAS Perspective (Freetown), as submitted under resolution 78/241, 2024-04-18 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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