State dossier
Zimbabwe
ZWE · ZIMBABWE · on the world map
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 2024-10-14, stated directly (EXPLICIT)
At the Geneva weapons convention in 2015, Zimbabwe joined calls for a pre-emptive ban on lethal autonomous weapons. Since 2024 it has called at the UN First Committee for a legally binding treaty, saying life and death decisions must never be left to machines. On this site's scale that is a treaty with bans.
Zimbabwe calls for a pre-emptive ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems at the CCW.
we join like-minded delegations in calling for a pre-emptive ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems
Statement by Zimbabwe, Meeting of High Contracting Parties to the CCW, 12-13 November 2015, 2015-11-12 source
Zimbabwe calls for early negotiation of a legally binding treaty on autonomous weapons.
we call for early negotiations of an international legally binding treaty on autonomous weapons systems
Statement by Zimbabwe, First Committee general debate, 79th session, 2024-10-14 source
Zimbabwe says life and death decisions must never be handed to machines, in the same passage that calls for urgent treaty negotiations.
Decisions over life and death must never be delegated to machines or algorithms.
Statement by Zimbabwe, First Committee general debate, 80th session, 2025-10-10 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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