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Peru
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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 2021-09-27, stated directly (EXPLICIT)
In 2021 Peru co-wrote a working paper for the Geneva weapons convention asking for negotiations on a legally binding instrument with specific prohibitions and regulations. In 2023 it was a named author of the revised Draft Protocol VI, which would ban autonomous weapons that cannot be used with meaningful human control and regulate the rest. Peru repeated the two-tier call in the First Committee in 2024 and 2025.
Peru co-authored a 2021 paper asking for a mandate to negotiate a legally binding instrument.
Recommend a new mandate for the GGE to initiate immediately an open-ended process to negotiate a legally binding instrument.
Joint Working Paper (CCW/GGE.1/2021/WP.7), submitted by Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, the State of Palestine, Peru, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and Uruguay, 2021-09-27 source
The same paper says fully autonomous systems must be prohibited.
weapon systems or configurations within the scope of our discussions that are fully autonomous are unacceptable and must be prohibited under international law.
Joint Working Paper (CCW/GGE.1/2021/WP.7), submitted by Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, the State of Palestine, Peru, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and Uruguay, 2021-09-27 source
Peru co-authored the revised Draft Protocol VI, whose Article 3 prohibits systems that cannot be used with meaningful human control.
autonomous weapon systems that cannot be used with meaningful human control in their critical functions of selecting, targeting, or engaging to apply force.
Draft Protocol on Autonomous Weapon Systems (Protocol VI) (CCW/GGE.1/2023/WP.6), 2023-05-11 source
Peru's 2024 First Committee statement backs a legally binding two-tier instrument.
In the 2024 general debate Peru says the best way to deal with autonomous weapon systems is a legally binding instrument based on international law, with a two-level approach of prohibition and regulation covering their design, development, production, possession, acquisition, deployment, transfer and use. Intervención del Representante Permanente del Perú, Debate General de la Primera Comisión, 79 período de sesiones (7 de octubre de 2024), 2024-10-07 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
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