Overview
The 2025 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention took place in Conference Room Tempus of the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland on 12 November 2025. It was chaired by H.E. Arthur Sewankambo Kafeero, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Uganda to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva.
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.
Information for Participants
On 23 October 2025, the CCW Implementation Support Unit circulated an aide-mémoire providing information on attending the 2025 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention.
Documents
CCW/MSP/2025/1 - Provisional agenda
CCW/MSP/2025/2 - Provisional programme of work and annotations
CCW/MSP/2025/3 - Report of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Sponsorship Programme
CCW/MSP/2025/4 - Report of the Implementation Support Unit (ISU)
CCW/MSP/2025/5 - Estimated Costs 2026 Group of Governmental Experts on Emerging Technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS)
CCW/MSP/2025/6 - Estimated Costs Preparatory Committee meeting for the 2026 Seventh Review Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention
CCW/MSP/2025/7 - Estimated Costs Seventh Review Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention
CCW/MSP/2025/CRP.1 - Draft final report (circulated on 7 November)
CCW/MSP/2025/CRP.1/Rev.1 - Draft final report (circulated on 11 November)
CCW/MSP/2025/CRP.2 - Compliance Annual Reports Analysis
Working papers
States wishing to submit a working paper must send the document to the CCW ISU (ccw@un.org) in Word format. States are kindly asked to submit working papers at least one week before the start of the meeting, to allow enough time to format and circulate the document.
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.1 - Submitted by the European Union, Albania, Georgia, Iceland, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.2 - Submitted by Japan
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.3 - Submitted by the Republic of Korea
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.4 - Submitted by Austria
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.5 - Submitted by Brazil, Belgium, Ireland, Norway and Switzerland on behalf of Angola, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montenegro, Mozambique, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand and Uruguay
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.6 - Submitted by Austria, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines and Switzerland
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.7 - Submitted by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.8 - Submitted by Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.9 - Submitted by ICRC
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.10 - Submitted by Ireland
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.11 - Submitted by Brazil
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.12 - Submitted by Canada
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.13 - Submitted by Cuba
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.14 - Submitted by the Russian Federation
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.15 - Submitted by China
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.16 - Submitted by Albania, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Republic of Moldova, the Principality of Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.17 - Submitted by Israel
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.18 - Submitted by Australia
CCW/MSP/2025/WP.19 - Submitted by Australia on behalf of Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
