Austria's Foreign Minister Schallenberg Awarded “Arms Control Person of the Year”

People › Diplomats ♦ Published: January 15, 2025; 22:24 ♦ (Vindobona)

A significant success for international diplomacy: Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg and the Austrian Foreign Ministry have been named “Arms Control Person of the Year” in 2024 by the renowned US Arms Control Association (ACA). This prestigious award recognizes the special commitment of Schallenberg and his team to the regulation of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) as well as the organization of the Vienna conference “Humanity at the Crossroads: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Challenge of Regulation”.

Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has been named “Arms Control Person of the Year” 2024 by the renowned Arms Control Association (ACA). / Picture: © BMEIA/Gruber

The Vienna conference, which took place in the Hofburg at the end of April 2024, attracted more than 1,000 participants from 144 countries and became a global focal point for the discussion on autonomous weapons systems, as Vindobona.org reported.…

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