Sentences with phrase «meetings of experts»

Yet how fast the «informal meetings of experts» progress to a more substantive process depends on how swiftly governments develop and articulate their national policy on these weapons that would select and attack targets without further human intervention.

More than 80 states participated in three exploratory «informal meetings of experts» on the topic in 2014 - 2016.

Meetings of experts Your expert must understand that the purpose of any expert meeting (CPR 35.12) is to identify the issues the experts can agree upon and those on which they can not, and to provide a summary of the reason (s) for such disagreement.

The Initiative is informed by regular meetings of experts in the sector, policymakers and supporters engaged in the financial services sector, including financial intermediaries, securities market participants and their regulators, among others.

These principles are the result of a background document that examined the feasibility to design adequate diets using locally available foods, and are based on consensus achieved during an informal meeting of experts held in Geneva in early 2004.

FWS will convene a meeting of experts to try to come to consensus on the question of whether the red wolf is distinct species.

Just last year, for example, the UK had its second - coldest March since records began, prompting the Met Office to call a rapid response meeting of experts to get to grips with whether melting Arctic sea - ice could be affecting British weather.

Currently, there is a meeting of experts convening in San Diego to help address this issue.

There's a meeting of experts at Harvard starting Thursday to hash out the many questions surrounding that option.

In place of making expeditions to the South Pole and Greenland, her old stomping grounds, she spent chunks of the last five years hunkered in gray buildings in Beijing, New Delhi, Marrakech and Paris running meeting after meeting of experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Report from the Meeting of Experts on Climate Information and Prediction Services (CLIPS), Melbourne, Australia, 28 to 31 March 1995.

Report of the eleventh session of the Advisory Working Group of the Commission for Climatology (Mauritius, 9 - 14 February 1998), (including, The Report of the Meeting of Experts on Climate and Human Health (CHH), Geneva, 5 - 8 December 1997) / World Climate Applications and Services Programme and World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme.

Proceedings of the Meeting of Experts to Develop Guidelines on Heat / Health Warning Systems: Freiburg, Germany, 14 - 16 April 2004.

Report of the second session of the CCl Working Group on Operational Use of Climatological Knowledge (Geneva, 28 - 31 May 1996) and Report of the Meeting of Experts on CLIPS (Geneva, 22 - 24 May 1996).

The Court will then set a timetable for the progress of the claim, for example set deadlines for exchange of witness statements, expert reports and meeting of experts and then the trial.

It is generally only after the meeting of experts that both sides will have a realistic view of the chance of success, should the dispute go to trial.

Many claims settle following a well - run and effective meeting of experts.

Ambassador Jean - Hugues Simon - Michel of France is chairing the CCW meeting of experts and has recruited Brazil and Germany to serve as «friends of the chair» to chair respectively the sessions on ethical and societal concerns and technical issues.

We commend the leadership of Ambassador Biontino of Germany in the second informal meeting of experts, which deepened our understanding on this issue through an interactive exchange of views.

Many of the 120 states that are part of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) are participating in the 2015 CCW meeting of experts, which is chaired by Germany's Ambassador Michael Biontino who has enlisted «friends of the chair» from Albania, Chile, Hungary, Finland, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Switzerland to chair thematic sessions on a range of technical, legal, and overarching issues including ethics and human rights.

France will support a renewal of the mandate for another meeting of experts in 2015 during the meeting of the High Contracting Parties to be held next month.

Israel welcomes the work undertaken this year in the CCW on the issue of future Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) by the informal meeting of experts held in April, as well as the continued work on IEDs and looks forward to further work on these two issues.

At the first Convention on Conventional Weapons meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems held at the UN in Geneva on 13 - 16 May 2014, a number of countries noted the relevance of international human rights law in their statements, including Croatia, Egypt, the Holy See, Mexico, Sierra Leone, and South Africa.

Briefing Paper delivered to the State delegates at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, Geneva 11 - 15 April, 2016.

The provisional agenda of the CCW meeting of experts does not list any women to present on or chair any sessions.

This topic is not so new anymore, it has been discussed thoroughly in the two informal meeting of experts in the CCW over the past two years, but in our view that is not enough.

Many of the 117 states party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) are expected to attend the four - day meeting of experts on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» in addition to representatives from international and UN agencies, -LSB-...]

The CCW meeting of experts is the first multilateral meeting on the matter, but it is unlikely to be the last.

What's special about an agreement to hold a four - day meeting of experts to consider questions relating to «lethal autonomous weapons systems?»

For that reason the UK took part in the productive informal meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems in April this year at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW).

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots delegation to the CCW meeting of experts is comprised 40 campaigners from 12 member NGOs in countries including Austria, Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, and US.

In May 2014, the South Korea ambassador to the UN Ambassador Ahn Youngjip said to the Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems for the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) that the «Republic of Korea continues to pay due attention to ethical considerations surrounding the use of robot systems for civil and military purposes».

What is the CCW meeting of experts and why does it matter?

We welcome the comprehensive report of the Chair of the meeting of experts.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots delegation to the CCW meeting of experts is comprised 35 campaigners from member NGOs in countries including Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, UK, US, and Zimbabwe.

United Kingdom (23 October) In the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) we thank France for leading a productive, informal meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems in May.

This briefing come less than a month after the first Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) meeting of experts on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» was held the UN in Geneva on 13 - 16 May.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots delegation to the CCW meeting of experts is comprised 40 campaigners from 13 member NGOs in countries including Canada, Colombia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, UK, and US.

I am proud to have chaired the Meeting of Experts dedicated to the issue in May.

The CCW meeting of experts on 13 - 16 May is open to all nations regardless of whether they've joined the framework convention and its protocols.

At the CCW's second informal meeting of experts held on 13 - 17 April 2015, there was consensus that the talks on fully autonomous weapons should continue in 2016, with no state suggesting that further work is not needed or undesirable.

The United States delegation was pleased with the high level of interest and wide participation in May's informal meeting of experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS).

My delegation considers that the four - day meeting of experts convened by States party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva in May, provided an important opportunity to explore the fundamental legal, ethical and societal issues raised by one such possible advancement, lethal autonomous weapon systems.

The meeting of experts on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» is considering questions relating to the emerging technology of these weapons, but there is not yet a negotiating mandate.

The campaign has prepared the following «Frequently Asked Questions» [PDF] on the CCW meeting of experts.

Professor Christof Heyns will present at the CCW meeting of experts on behalf of the University of Pretoria.

On 15 November 2013, nations attending the annual CCW meeting agreed to begin working on killer robots when they adopted a report committing to hold a meeting of experts in May 2014 to consider questions relating to the emerging technology of «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

A total of 87 countries participated in the four - day informal meeting of experts on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» by the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the United Nations (UN) on Geneva, which concluded on the afternoon of Friday, May 16 (71 states parties and signatories to the convention and 12 observer states).

States again agreed again — by consensus — in November 2014 to continue the CCW deliberations on killer robots, scheduling a second «informal meeting of experts» on 13 - 17 April 2015.

The informal meeting of experts did not issue any formal outcome statement, but the chair circulated a four - page summary of the meeting.