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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 »

January 13, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Philippines may host bioweapons conference in 2012

(GMA News) A regional Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) may be held in the Philippines later this year, to support the Philippines' international cooperative efforts for dealing with biological weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. …

January 12, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Biological indecision

(Malcolm Dando | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) The December 2011 Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in Geneva was widely expected to significantly strengthen international measures in the prohibition regime against weapons of mass destruction. After all, the review came after a series of constructive annual meetings in the second Intersessional Read More »

January 10, 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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Philippines Leads Asia-Pacific Biological Weapons Dialogue in Geneva

(ISRIA) The Philippine Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that the Philippines had actively participated in the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC RevCon) held …

January 10, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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The nuclear, biological and climate threat – 2011 reviewed

(EurekAlert!) Gerald Epstein, director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy (CSIS) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, says that 2011 saw progress on approaches to address biological threats posed by non-state groups at both the Seventh Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Review Conference and the G8 Global Partnership Against the Read More »