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Ethical issues
At the United Nations meeting in May 2014 in Geneva, nations talked about ethical issues associated with the military use of killer robots. Proponents of killer robots made strategic and ethical arguments for such weapons. They argued that existing law was sufficient to govern the use of killer robots. Opponents

Martens Clause
The Martens Clause was named after the Russian delegate Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens who attended the Hague conferences of 1899 and whose ideas the Martens Clause was based on. The 1899 clause states:

The clause was slightly revised at the 1907 Hague conferences:

The Martens Clause did not appear in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 but appears Protocol II added in 1977. The clause is shortened and two key concepts were removed (i.e., the notions of "laws of war" and "law of nations") leaving: