Sri Lanka welcomes commitment by states to seek consensus on lethal autonomous weapons
Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha who presided over the 121 member meeting of the High Contracting Parties on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) has said, “The stepping up of the mandate, to go beyond mere discussions of the possible implications of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), to requesting States parties to agree on recommendations as to what should be done at the 2016 Fifth Review Conference