Brehm said the campaign welcomes the strong interest by governments in discussing concerns relating to the weapons, as shown by the first meeting on lethal
autonomous weapons systems chaired by France at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) in May 2014.
Not exact matches
Ambassador Jean - Hugues Simon - Michel of France
chaired the first CCW meeting on lethal
autonomous weapons systems in May 2014 and has been replaced by Ambassador Guitton, who is a friend of the
chair of the third CCW meeting.
The afternoon session
chaired by Ambassador Yvette Stevens of Sierra Leone will consider security aspects and the possible regional and / or global destabilization caused by the deployment of lethal
autonomous weapons systems.
Last December at their Fifth Review Conference CCW states decided to formalize and expand those deliberations by establishing a Group of Governmental Experts on lethal
autonomous weapons systems to meet in August and November 2017,
chaired by Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill of India.
A «food for thought» paper disseminated by the GGE
chair with key questions for states contains several technology and legal / ethical issues that do not directly relate to the issue of lethal
autonomous weapons systems.
The first meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on lethal
autonomous weapons systems will be held at the UN in Geneva on either 24 - 28 April or 21 - 25 August 2017 and
chaired by Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill of India.
At «informal consultations» on Monday 11 November, France — as
chair of this week's Convention on Conventional
Weapons meeting — proposed a mandate to «discuss questions related to emerging technologies» in the area of «lethal
autonomous weapons systems.»
It was widely hoped the GGE could begin developing a conceptual understanding on a working definition of what are lethal
autonomous weapons systems, but the GGE
chair has put this discussion off until 2018.