Luxembourg

Luxembourg is a state party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Luxembourg has attended numerous Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) meetings on autonomous weapons systems since 2014. Luxembourg supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems.

In December 2025, Luxembourg voted in favour of UN General Assembly Resolution 80/57 on lethal autonomous weapons systems. Mindful of the challenges and concerns autonomous weapons systems raise from humanitarian, legal, security, technological and ethical perspectives, Resolution 80/57 stresses the urgent need for the CCW to address the challenges and concerns posed by autonomous weapons systems, and calls upon the High Contracting Parties of the CCW to ‘work towards completing the set of elements for an instrument being developed within the mandate of the Group of Governmental Experts, with a view to future negotiation.’

At the CCW GGE on LAWS in September 2025, Luxembourg joined a group of 42 states delivering a joint statement calling for the group to begin negotiations of an instrument on the basis of its ‘rolling text,’ and stating that they were ready to do this.

At the 79th UN General Assembly First Committee in October 2024, Luxembourg voted in favour of Draft Resolution L.77 on lethal autonomous weapons systems. Draft Resolution L.77 raises concerns about the ‘negative consequences and impact of autonomous weapon systems on global security and regional and international stability’ and stresses ‘the importance of the role of humans in the use of force to ensure responsibility and accountability and for States to comply with international law.’ It also notes ‘the repeated calls by the Secretary-General to urgently conclude negotiations of a legally binding instrument with prohibitions and regulations for autonomous weapons systems, in line with a two-tier approach.’ The Resolution will convene open informal consultations in 2025 over two days in New York, ‘to consider the report of the Secretary-General in full complementarity with and in a manner that supports the fulfilment of the mandate of the Group of Governmental Experts in order to further the international community’s understanding of the issues involved by discussing the full range of views received, including proposals and relevant aspects raised in the report that may thus far not have been discussed in detail in the Group of Governmental Experts.’

Luxembourg made a submission to the UN Secretary-General pursuant to Resolution 78/241 on autonomous weapons systems in May 2024.

In December 2023, Luxembourg co-sponsored and voted in support of UN General Assembly Resolution 78/241 on lethal autonomous weapons systems. Resolution 78/241 stressed the ‘urgent need for the international community to address the challenges and concerns raised by autonomous weapons systems’, and mandated the UN Secretary-General to prepare a report, reflecting the views of member and observer states on autonomous weapons systems and ways to address the related challenges and concerns they raise from humanitarian, legal, security, technological and ethical perspectives and on the role of humans in the use of force.

In September 2021, in a joint submission to the Chair of the GGE on LAWS with a number of other states, Luxembourg stated that ‘the ceding of human control, agency, responsibility and intent in decisions on the application of force to algorithms and computer-controlled processes poses fundamental ethical concerns.’^[1]Submission by Austria, Brazil, Chile, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico and New Zealand to the Chair of the CCW GGE on LAWS, September 2021, … Continue reading

At the CCW Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (GGE on LAWS) in 2019, Luxembourg said that ‘while existing international legal norms are strong, this does not mean they cannot be strengthened’, and that ‘a dedicated international legal instrument’ should be considered as a concrete policy outcome.^[2]Statement by Luxembourg, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 27 March 2019, … Continue reading