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Colombia
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What does it want?
Position: wants a treaty with bans (LBI-BAN). Supports a legally binding treaty that prohibits some systems.
Wants a treaty with bans (LBI-BAN), since 2023-05-11, stated directly (EXPLICIT)
Colombia is a named author of the revised Draft Protocol VI of May 2023, a proposed treaty for the Geneva weapons convention. It would ban autonomous weapons that cannot be used with meaningful human control and regulate the rest. In October 2023 Colombia told the First Committee that a binding instrument should ban fully autonomous weapons and regulate all others.
Colombia co-authored a draft CCW protocol whose Article 3 prohibits a class of autonomous weapons.
It is prohibited to design, develop, produce, possess, acquire, deploy, transfer, or use, under any circumstances, autonomous weapon systems
Draft Protocol on Autonomous Weapon Systems (Protocol VI) (CCW/GGE.1/2023/WP.6), 2023-05-11 source
The prohibition covers systems that cannot be used with meaningful human control.
autonomous weapon systems that cannot be used with meaningful human control in their critical functions of selecting, targeting, or engaging to apply force.
Draft Protocol on Autonomous Weapon Systems (Protocol VI) (CCW/GGE.1/2023/WP.6), 2023-05-11 source
Colombia says autonomous weapons should be governed by a binding instrument that bans fully autonomous weapons and regulates the rest.
In its First Committee general debate statement, Colombia says it is urgent to continue discussing autonomous weapon systems, and that they should be regulated by a binding international instrument that prohibits the development of fully autonomous weapons and regulates all other autonomous weapon systems so that they remain under meaningful human control. Intervención de Colombia, Debate General, Primera Comisión, 78 Período de Sesiones (9 de octubre de 2023), 2023-10-09 source
Colombia co-signed a 2024 group submission to the Secretary-General calling for binding rules with regulations and prohibitions.
require the development of legally binding rules and principles, including regulations and prohibitions
Lethal autonomous weapons systems: report of the Secretary-General (A/79/88), 2024-05-24 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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