State dossier
Vanuatu
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What does it want?
Position: wants a treaty, terms open (LBI-OPEN). Supports negotiating a treaty but has not said what it should prohibit.
Wants a treaty, terms open (LBI-OPEN), since 2025-10-13, interpreted (INFERRED)
In its 2025 UN First Committee statement, Vanuatu said autonomous weapons, artificial intelligence and cyber tools must be governed by international law and human oversight, and that it supports efforts to set binding norms. It did not say what those norms should ban, and the line covers several technologies at once, so this reading is an interpretation.
Vanuatu supports binding norms for a group of technologies that includes autonomous weapons.
Vanuatu supports global efforts to establish binding norms that ensure these innovations serve the cause of peace, not destruction.
Statement by Vanuatu to the First Committee, 80th session general debate, 2025-10-13 source
In 2023 Vanuatu called for an international framework on autonomous weapons, without saying it should be binding.
Vanuatu calls for the establishment of an international framework to ensure that international humanitarian law and human rights law are respected
A/C.1/78/PV.8: First Committee, 8th meeting, general debate, 2023-10-10 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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