Overview
The 2025 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention will take place in Conference Room Tempus of the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland on 12 November 2025. It will be 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.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.
