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CCW states give the autonomous weapons expert group a three-year mandate to 2026

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Source: Stop Killer RobotsAlso reported by Geneva Centre for Security Policy

At their November 2023 meeting in Geneva, states party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons told the Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons to further consider and formulate, by consensus, a set of elements of an instrument without prejudging its nature. The group meets for 10 days a year and reports to the Seventh Review Conference in 2026. Russia’s objection to the rules of procedure cost the meeting more than a day.

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States wanting a treaty got a negotiating text exercise with no commitment to a legal instrument, and every outcome still needed consensus, so any single state could block it.

When
17 Nov 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0146
Who
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, United Nations

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Stop Killer Robots and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextUN expert group agrees draft final report on autonomous weapons; treaty question deferred

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WTA-N-2023-0146: “CCW states give the autonomous weapons expert group a three-year mandate to 2026.” wheresthe.ai, 17 Nov 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/intl-ccw-laws-gge-three-year-mandate-2023-11/ (source: Stop Killer Robots).

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