Sentences with phrase «one's first committee»

Signatory Professor Toby Walsh of the University of New South Wales generated further media interest, particularly in Australia, when he joined Campaign to Stop Killer Robots outreach at UNGA First Committee on Disarmament in New York in October 2015.

More states have raised autonomous weapons concerns at the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security this year than in the past two years, according to a Campaign to Stop Killer Robots review of statements from the 2015 session, which concludes on 9 November.

States including Austria, France, Ireland, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Pakistan, and Switzerland have spoken more than once on autonomous weapons at the 2015 session of First Committee.

The bill's first committee hearing takes place on Wednesday, October 25.

In a statement, press release, and briefing for delegates, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots urged states at First Committee to articulate their views on autonomous weapons concerns and indicate support for more work through an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts that can step - up the pace though expanded discussions.

More than 150 countries are participating in the month - long 72nd session of UNGA First Committee in addition to key UN -LSB-...]

During the conventional weapons debate, on 30 October, five states spoke about fully autonomous weapons or «lethal autonomous robots» in their UN General Assembly First Committee statement: Austria, France, India, New Zealand, and South Africa.

More than 30 states and five groups of states have included autonomous weapons in their statements during First Committee, in addition to the International Committee of the Red Cross and Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

A total of 36 states highlighted fully autonomous weapons in their statements to the last UNGA First Committee session in 2016, while 32 states did so in 2015, 23 in 2014, and 35 in 2013, when the issue was first raised.

Two years after the Berlin games, however, when the Nazis were building the German embassy in Washington D.C., they awarded the construction contract to Avery Brundage; and Brundage later became a leader of the America First Committee, which contained many sympathizers for Hitler's Germany.

On 20 October, the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the UN and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots held a briefing for First Committee delegates featuring artificial intelligence expert Professor Toby Walsh of the University of New South Wales, who helped draft and was one of the first signatories on the July 2015 artificial intelligence open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons.

More than two dozen states and several groups of states expressed explicit support for continued CCW deliberations on killer robots during the UN General Assembly First Committee last month.

First committee appointed by the President.

«Yeo's first committee task will be to examine this month's National Audit Office report on government funding for renewable energy, covering taxpayer incentives and the «renewables obligation» scheme that forces electricity generators to invest in green energy.

At the previous First Committee session in 2014, 23 states raised killer robots concerns while 16 did so in 2013.

The leadership of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots will be in New York on 19 - 20 October to conduct outreach at the UN General Assembly's annual First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, which opened on 8 October and is chaired by Ambassador Karel van Oostrom, permanent representative of the Netherlands to the UN in New York.

Several media outlets reported on autonomous weapons concerns at 2015 First Committee including The Guardian, Motherboard, Newsweek and VICE News.

On 29 October, ten states spoke on fully autonomous weapons at First Committee: Costa Rica, Ecuador, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Pakistan, Switzerland, United Kingdom, the United States.

The 2013 session of the United Nations General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security has seen a number of states speak for the first time about fully autonomous weapons, with many urging international talks.

The evidence that this issue has arrived could be seen everywhere during the UN General Assembly First Committee on -LSB-...]

Initially we were sympathetic to the America First Committee, for we were encouraged by the Trotskyites to see the crisis as an imperialistic, British mess.

Our thanks to Erin Hunt of Mines Action Canada for delivering the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots statement at UNGA First Committee on 12 October.

The first committee, set up in April 2017 when Das was secretary of economic affairs, was dead set against allowing cryptocurrencies in India.

«I feel like this is giving birth after 10 years,» said Honig, who chaired the first committee to develop the original sustainability code and still serves on the Wine Institute board.

The first committee ranking comes out then (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).

My mistake, that is a current rule change that has been proposed and passed through the first committee, but has not been confirmed yet for the 2018 season.

Shortly after, I joined my first committee for the Grace Center Fashion Show.

The resolution will be looked at during its first committee meeting on December 8, and Morton expects there will be much more discussion of it in the next few days.

You should know that on Monday, February 12th, 2018 I convened my first committee hearing for the newly created «For - Hire -LSB-...]

This was the first committee stop for Book's bill; the bill moves onto Governmental Oversight and Accountability, then Rules.

Harrison says this is the first committee they have organized with the sole intention of flipping a different state seat.

As the Council begins to schedule its first committee hearings and readies for the reintroduction of legislation from the last session, there are a number of priorities that Council members are planning to pursue.

Onondaga County Republican Committee Chairman Tom Dadey was the first committee chair to endorse Trump in January.

The Saugerties Republican Committee was the first committee to donate to her campaign.

«The first committee is made up of 21 Canadian professors from various universities from across the country who decides on the initial list of candidates,» she explains.

At the first committee meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ingber found himself surrounded by other scientists breaking boundaries — physicists publishing in biology journals, biologists in physics publications.

One of her first committee assignments, the HELP Committee, will put her in the mix when it comes to student loan legislation and policy.

Rhode Island HB 7630 has been scheduled for a date to be heard by the first committee.

An election was held, officers were elected, and the first committees were formed within the Organizing Committee.

Records show that the first Committee was described as «enthusiastic show and field trial owners».