State dossier
Malawi
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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 2024-05-24, stated directly (EXPLICIT)
In its 2024 submission to the UN Secretary-General, Malawi called for talks on a legally binding treaty to start as soon as possible. It said the treaty should ban unacceptable autonomous weapons, including those that target people, and regulate the rest. That is a treaty with bans.
Malawi calls for negotiations on a legally binding instrument to begin soon.
call for the start of negotiations of a legally binding instrument on Autonomous Weapons Systems as soon as possible
UNGA Resolution 78/241: Submission by Malawi (Note No. 51/24), 2024-05-24 source
Malawi wants the treaty to prohibit some systems and regulate others, the two-tier approach.
a treaty is required to prohibit fundamentally unacceptable autonomous weapons systems and regulate the use of other autonomous weapons systems
UNGA Resolution 78/241: Submission by Malawi (Note No. 51/24), 2024-05-24 source
Malawi names systems that target people as a category to prohibit.
This means AWS that target people must also be prohibited for legal and ethical reasons.
UNGA Resolution 78/241: Submission by Malawi (Note No. 51/24), 2024-05-24 source
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How did it vote?
did not vote, Yes, Yes across the three resolutions.
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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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