The 2013 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects will be held on 14-15 November 2013 in Geneva. The Chairperson-designate will be Ambassador Jean-Hughes Simon-Michel of France.

A seminar on “Directed energy, acoustic and electroshock weapons” will be hosted by the Permanent Mission of Finland during the lunchtime of Thursday 14 November 2013 in the margins of the CCW Meeting of High Contracting Parties.


Registration of Participants to the Meeting of the High Contracting Parties

Opening of the Meeting

• Confirmation of the nomination of the Chairperson of the Meeting

• Adoption of agenda

• Confirmation of the rules of procedure

• Confirmation of the nomination of the Secretary-General of the Meeting

• Organization of work, including that of any subsidiary body of the Meeting

• General exchange of views

• An Accelerated Plan of Action on Universalization of the Convention and its annexed Protocols

15.00–18.00

• Mines other than anti-personnel mines (MOTAPM)

• Consideration of the report of the CCW Sponsorship Programme

Friday, 15 November 2013, 10.00–13.00

• Status of implementation of and compliance with the Convention and its Protocols

• Consideration of the report of the Implementation Support Unit

• Other matters

15.00–18.00

• Consideration and adoption of the final report

• Closing of the Meeting