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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

A/RES/80/57View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99kkLethal autonomous weapons systems, published in 2025.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2023–2025
  • 2025A/RES/80/57Lethal autonomous weapons systemsLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2024A/RES/79/62Lethal autonomous weapons systemsCompare with previous version
  • 2023A/RES/78/241Lethal autonomous weapons systems

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

iExtracted automatically from each entity’s budget submission.

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 topic
Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs
1
Underlines that a comprehensive and inclusive multilateral approach is required to address the full range of challenges and concerns posed by autonomous weapons systems, including consideration of legal, technological, ethical, humanitarian and security perspectives, in order to safeguard international peace and security, and encourages States to conduct further exchanges to that effect;
2
Stresses the urgent need to address the challenges and concerns posed by autonomous weapons systems in the context of the objectives and purpose of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, and to further advance the universalization of the Convention;
3
Calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects to work towards completing the set of elements for an instrument being developed within the mandate of the Group of Governmental Experts on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, with a view to future negotiations;
4
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-first session the item entitled “Lethal autonomous weapons systems”.

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