Robert in den Bosch is a Dutch diplomat who serves as Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Nominated by the Western European and Others Group after the Eastern European Group declined its turn, he was endorsed by the High Contracting Parties of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons through a written silence procedure as chair of its Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems. He opened each of the Group's sessions from March 2024 to August 2026 and chaired the negotiation of its consensus final report, adopted on 4 September 2026, which contains the set of elements on LAWS (Report of the 2024–2025–2026 Sessions of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS (CCW/GGE.1/2026/3)). The report's annex lists working papers submitted by the Chair in each year (CCW/GGE.1/2024/WP.6 and WP.11, CCW/GGE.1/2025/WP.1 and WP.9, CCW/GGE.1/2026/WP.2 and WP.6).
Robert in den Bosch
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Dutch diplomat; Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the Conference on Disarmament; chair of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems, 2024–2026.
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