For Italy, the starting point of this debate has always been that the development, deployment and use of any weapons system, including possible LAWS, must comply with the rules and principles of International Humanitarian Law. In our view, this encompasses the rules on the conduct of hostilities, as well as the obligation to conduct legal reviews of weapons, means and methods of warfare, in accordance with art. 36 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions.
Statement by Ambassador Gianfranco Incarnato, Permanent Representative of Italy to the Conference on Disarmament, Items 5(b): Human element (CCW Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, Geneva, 25-29 March 2019)
