State dossier
Slovenia
SVN · SLOVENIA · on the world map
What does it want?
Position: unclear or shifting (AMBIG). Has said things that point in more than one direction.
Unclear or shifting (AMBIG), since 2023-10-23, points both ways (AMBIGUOUS)
Slovenia's words leave the kind of instrument open. At the UN First Committee in 2023 it backed a stronger mandate for the Geneva weapons convention's expert group, one that may lead to negotiations on a new international instrument, and in 2025 it welcomed the group's progress. It has not said whether that instrument should be binding or what it should ban.
Slovenia supports a stronger CCW expert group mandate that may lead to negotiating a new instrument.
Slovenia supports a stronger mandate that may lead to negotiations for a new international instrument on this matter.
UNGA First Committee, 78th session, thematic debate on conventional arms: Statement of Slovenia, 2023-10-23 source
In 2025 Slovenia acknowledges the expert group's progress without naming an outcome.
Slovenia acknowledges the limited but meaningful progress achieved in the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (GGE LAWS)
UNGA First Committee, 80th session, General Debate: Statement of Slovenia, 2025-10-13 source
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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