GENEVA, Dec 13 — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called today for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a key meeting on the issue opened in Geneva. Negotiators at the UN talks have for eight years been discussing limits on lethal autonomous weapons, or LAWS, which...
GENEVA, Dec 13 — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called today for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a key meeting on the issue opened in Geneva.
“I encourage the Review Conference to agree on an ambitious plan for the future to establish restrictions on the use of certain types of autonomous weapons,” Guterres said at the start of the five-day talks. Amnesty International and civil society groups are calling for countries to start negotiating an international treaty and will present a petition to negotiators later on Monday.
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