Overview

The 26th Annual Conference of Amended Protocol II of the CCW took place on 12 November 2024, in Room XIX of the Palais des Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland. It will be presided by Ms. Tsholofelo Tsheole, Deputy Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland.

Participants at the meeting are invited to read and familiarize themselves with the Code of Conduct to prevent harassment, including sexual harassment, at UN system events.

On 18 October 2024, the CCW Implementation Support Unit circulated an aide-mémoire providing information on attending the 26th Annual Conference of Protocol V. Alongside this aide-mémoire, the CCW ISU also circulated slides containing information on e-deleGATE.

Documents

CCW/AP.II/CONF.26/1 - Provisional agenda

Informal Indicative Schedule of the 26th Annual Conference

CCW/AP.II/CONF.26/2 - Report on improvised explosive devices (IED)

CCW/AP.II/CONF.26/3 - Estimated Costs 2025 Group of Experts of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II

CCW/AP.II/CONF.26/4 - Estimated Costs 2025 Twenty-seventh Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II

CCW/AP.II/CONF.26/5 - Final document (Advance version)

CCW/AP.II/CONF.26/INF.1 - List of participants

CCW/AP.II/CONF.26/CRP.1 - Draft final document (circulated on 6 November 2024)

CCW/AP.II/CONF.26/CRP.1/Rev.1 - Draft final document (circulated on 12 November 2024)

CCW/AP.II/CONF.26/CRP.2 - Amended Protocol II National Annual Reports Analysis

Side Events

12
November 2024
Geneva Conversation Series - Countering the threat posed by improvised explosive devicesImprovised explosive devices remain an evolving, cross-cutting, multi-dimensional threat to peace, security and sustainable development. Increasing urbanization of conflict and new developments in the design and detonation of improvised explosive devices further compound the challenges they pose. Their use continues to harm civilians, including United Nations personnel, disrupt the provision of humanitarian assistance, and impede the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The proliferation and easy accessibility of certain improvised explosive device components facilitates their widespread use.

Action 7 of the New Agenda for Peace (NAfP) calls on States to take action to reduce the human cost of weapons, including through measures to stop the use by terrorist and other non-State armed groups of improvised explosive devices.

During this session, key observations and recommendations of the Secretary-General’s report on “Countering the threat posed by improvised explosive devices” (A/79/211) will be presented by UNODA. Participants will then be invited to exchange on efforts and approaches to prevent, counter, and mitigate the threat posed by improvised explosive devices and to explore how the Secretary-General’s recommendations could be taken forward.
13:15-14:45Room XXVII
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