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Qatar
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What does it want?
Position: keep it in Geneva (CCW-ONLY). Supports continuing the consensus process in the Geneva weapons convention, and has not said what it should produce.
Keep it in Geneva (CCW-ONLY), since 2021-12-13, interpreted (INFERRED)
At the 2021 review conference of the Geneva weapons convention (the CCW), Qatar called autonomous weapons the biggest challenge before the meeting, stressed the convention's central role, and urged states to take the expert group's report forward. It did not say what the talks should produce. The statement is in Arabic only, so this reading is a description. Qatar voted Yes on all three UN resolutions.
Qatar puts autonomous weapons at the center of the CCW's agenda without naming an outcome.
Arabic statement to the Sixth CCW Review Conference, headed as a draft text of Qatar's delegation. Qatar says the biggest challenge before the conference is how to deal with autonomous weapons, given the challenges they pose to international humanitarian law, while noting civilian uses of the technology; says states must deal positively with the GGE report; affirms the pivotal role of the convention as a key instrument serving humanitarian law; and stresses addressing and stopping the destructive effects of autonomous weapons development, especially in AI, which adds destruction without clear responsibility. Statement by Qatar, Sixth Review Conference of the CCW (Arabic), 2021-12-13 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?
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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