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Lebanon
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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 2024-06-24, interpreted (INFERRED)
In its 2024 submission to the UN Secretary-General, Lebanon called for a new protocol to the Geneva weapons convention to regulate autonomous weapons, and said they should be banned for now, until an international agreement regulates them. That is a treaty with bans. The submission is in Arabic only, so this reading is a description. In English in 2023, Lebanon asked states for commitments that keep meaningful human control. Lebanon voted Yes on all three UN resolutions.
Lebanon wants a new CCW protocol on autonomous weapons and a ban on them until one is agreed.
Arabic-only submission under resolution 78/241, sent with an English cover note dated 24 June 2024. Six points: the weapons can adapt and learn through AI; humans have no role in choosing the target, time and place once deployed; responsibility is lost; they cannot be relied on to distinguish combatants from civilians or to respect proportionality; giving a machine freedom to kill threatens human life and dignity. Point 6 says their use may conflict with Article 36 of Additional Protocol I, so new texts are needed to regulate their use through a sixth protocol to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, consistent with international humanitarian law, and that this type of weapon must be prohibited for now until it is regulated through an international agreement. UNGA Resolution 78/241: Submission by Lebanon (Arabic, Note Ref. 940/24), 2024-06-24 source
Lebanon asks states for commitments that keep meaningful human control over autonomous weapons.
requires a more thorough and targeted discussions and commitments by member states to insure meaningful human control over them
Statement by Lebanon, First Committee general debate, 78th session, 2023-10-06 source
Lebanon repeats in 2025 that states need fuller commitments to keep effective human control.
Arabic statement in the 2025 general debate by Ambassador Ahmad Arafa. Lebanon says integrating AI into military systems is likely to speed the shift toward more complex autonomous weapons, which requires more comprehensive and targeted discussions and commitments from member states to ensure effective human control over these weapons. Statement by Lebanon, First Committee general debate, 80th session (Arabic), 2025-10-15 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?
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When has it spoken?
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What rules has it written at home?
Its own military policy.
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The record
The documents on file.
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