Statement on Options for the Way Forward, CCW meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems

Mr. Chair, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots sincerely appreciates all the work that has gone into producing these recommendations for the draft report of the 2019 Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) and would like to provide a few brief comments on them. The recommendations matter because the last CCW Review Conference tasked this Group to consider and recommend “options” for addressing emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems. The final paragraph of the recommendations calls for the next two years of discussion to lead to a report to the 2021 Review Conference that…

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