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By Region: Middle East

Powder Mailings Sent to Israeli Embassies

(Global Security Newswire) Israeli embassies and consulates at six U.S. and European locations have received mailings marked “anthrax” that carried a nontoxic white powder, Agence France-Presse reported on Tuesday. The envelopes arrived at Israeli embassies in London,The Hague, Netherlands, and Brussels, Belgium, AFP quoted Israeli news reports as saying. Consulates in New York, Houston and Read More »

January 25, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, Agents & Toxins, Bioterrorism, and International
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European Union to Fund Global Efforts Against WMD Materials Trafficking

(Global Security Newswire) The European Union in coming years will provide $387 million for international efforts to prevent the smuggling of WMD materials, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday. Bruno Dupre of the EU European External Action Service noted the financial support during a conference in Nairobi, Kenya, on highlighting the threat posed by Read More »

January 23, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Limited Progress Seen at Biological Weapons Convention Review Meeting

(Global Security Newswire) Delegates to last month’s Biological Weapons Convention review conference achieved consensus on a number of updates to decision-making and trust-building mechanisms for the pact, but agreement was limited in those areas and fully lacking on other matters, official participants and independent experts said. Nations represented at the meeting approved certain reforms to Read More »

January 19, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Syrian Chemical, Biological Arms Worry Israel

(Global Security Newswire) A high-level Israeli armed forces officer on Tuesday said his country was alarmed over the fate of Syria’s chemical and biological warfare stocks after the potential fall of the Assad regime, Agence France-Presse reported. “The question is when, not if” the Assad government is brought down by continued protest efforts, Israeli armed Read More »

January 19, 2012
| Filed under Middle East, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and International
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BWC Meeting Makes Incremental Changes

(Arms Control Today) As most observers expected, the states-parties did not narrow their differences on contentious issues relating to treaty compliance and verification at the three-week conference in Geneva. Other areas had been seen as more likely to produce agreement. For example, some key states had pushed for a strengthened “intersessional process,” the annual meetings Read More »