Italy

Wants a treaty with bans (LBI-BAN), since 2024-05-24, stated directly (EXPLICIT)

In its May 2024 submission to the UN Secretary-General, Italy said the future instrument should set clear prohibitions and regulations and be adopted as an additional protocol to the Geneva weapons convention, the CCW. A CCW protocol is a binding treaty. Italy has repeated this at the UN First Committee in 2024 and 2025, so on this site's scale it wants a treaty with bans.

Italy's submission says the instrument should prohibit and regulate, and be adopted as an additional CCW protocol.

This instrument should set clear prohibitions and regulations, so as to be eventually adopted as an additional protocol to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.

Lethal autonomous weapons systems: report of the Secretary-General (A/79/88), 2024-05-24 source

At the First Committee, Italy restates its goal of a new CCW protocol that sets out prohibitions and regulations.

we reiterate our commitment to the establishment of a future instrument, ideally a new Protocol to the CCW, which clearly sets out prohibitions and regulations

UNGA First Committee, 79th session, Cluster IV (Conventional Weapons): Statement by Italy, 2024-10-24 source

In 2025 Italy keeps a CCW protocol as the goal of the process.

The eventual goal of this process should be the adoption of a Protocol to the CCW.

UNGA First Committee, 80th session, General Debate: Statement by Italy, 2025-10-14 source