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India
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What does this state want?
Coded CCW-ONLY: Supports the CCW/GGE consensus process only, no stated outcome position.
CCW-ONLY since 2024-12-02, EXPLICIT
Supports the CCW/GGE consensus process only, no stated outcome position.
India holds that the CCW GGE is the appropriate forum and that the UNGA track duplicates it: its 2024 explanation of vote states it abstained because parallel mandates duplicate efforts and resources, while the GGE addresses the full range of challenges. The vote trajectory (No in 2023, Abstain in 2024, Yes in 2025) is a change in posture toward the UNGA resolutions; the research record shows no change in the underlying forum preference, so no position shift event is coded. Whether the 2025 Yes reflects substantive softening is an open question that the unretrieved 2025 explanation of vote decides.
India abstained on the 2024 resolution, stating its reason in its own explanation of vote.
India has abstained on the resolution L.77
Explanation of vote by India on resolution 79/62 (L.77), Lethal autonomous weapons systems, November 2024 source
India objects to parallel UNGA mandates as duplicating the CCW GGE's work.
Parallel mandates and processes on lethal autonomous weapons systems also amount to a duplication of efforts and resources
Explanation of vote by India on resolution 79/62 (L.77), Lethal autonomous weapons systems, November 2024 source
In its own 2025 working paper India supports prohibiting the use of fully autonomous LAWS that cannot comply with IHL.
India supports the prohibition of the use of fully autonomous LAWS which cannot be used in compliance with IHL
Working Paper - Emerging Technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.3), 2025-05-16 source
For all other LAWS India calls for appropriate regulation of their use.
For all other LAWS, the GGE should identify measures for appropriate regulations on their use
Working Paper - Emerging Technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.3), 2025-05-16 source
India frames those regulations as implemented through national measures.
Appropriate regulations arising out of any possible framework should be implemented nationally
Working Paper - Emerging Technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.3), 2025-05-16 source
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How did it vote?
Votes: No, Abstain, Yes across the three resolutions.
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What has it signed?
Membership is fact, not opposition.
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When is it on the record?
The engagement cadence, dated.
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What has it written down at home?
National doctrine.
No published national policy identified by this project, as of 2026-07-17.
Research pass 5d (2026-07-17) reviewed the record and identified no published national directive on autonomy in weapon systems. No published national policy specifically governing autonomy in weapons systems identified by this project, as of 2026-07-17.
The record
The documents on file.
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