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Latvia
LVA · LATVIA · board row present
What does this state want?
Coded AMBIG: Position ambiguous or evolving.
AMBIG since 2025-09-03, AMBIGUOUS
Position ambiguous or evolving.
The draft-articles series supports two readings and settles neither. It is drafted as articles, the form a treaty takes, and its authors affirm them as such; that points toward a binding instrument. It also asks for nothing new, specifying measures States are to implement to satisfy international humanitarian law as it already stands, with Article 1 opening by describing what IHL already prohibits rather than creating a prohibition the instrument itself would impose; that points toward the existing process being sufficient. Both readings rest on the document; neither is stated by it. Coding CCW-ONLY would infer a forum preference from where the paper was filed and what it omits, and coding LBI-OPEN would infer a binding instrument from the genre of the document. Both are readings of the same silence in opposite directions, which is what AMBIG is for. The two evidence entries below carry the tension rather than resolving it. Latvia's own statements, if and when retrieved, are what would resolve it.
Latvia is a named author of CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.7, and affirms it in the form a treaty takes, as numbered draft articles.
Affirm the following draft articles on the development, deployment, and use of autonomous weapon systems
Draft articles on autonomous weapon systems - prohibitions and other regulatory measures on the basis of international humanitarian law (CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.7), 2025-09-03 source
The same articles ask for nothing new, specifying measures States are to implement to satisfy international humanitarian law as it already stands.
which specify prohibitions and other regulatory measures for States to implement to effectively satisfy these IHL requirements in armed conflict
Draft articles on autonomous weapon systems - prohibitions and other regulatory measures on the basis of international humanitarian law (CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.7), 2025-09-03 source
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How did it vote?
Votes: Yes, 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.
Doctrine not yet reviewed by this project, as of 2026-02-06.
The record
The documents on file.
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