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Pakistani Lawmakers Delay Biological Weapons Pact Bill

(Global Security Newswire) Pakistani lawmakers on Wednesday postponed consideration of a bill aimed at ensuring the nation meets its obligations as a member of the Biological Weapons Convention over questions about specific elements of the proposal, Pakistan Today reported. The National Assembly’s foreign affairs panel asked Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir to address a provision stating Read More »

January 27, 2012
| Filed under South Asia, Biological Weapons, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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State launches vaccination drive to eradicate livestock diseases

(Times of India) The objective is to control and ultimately eradicate brucellosis, FMD and PPR in a phased manner, the way we completely eradicated rinderpest disease five years ago,” Eknath Dawale, commissioner, State Animal Husbandry Department (SAHD), …

January 20, 2012
| Filed under South Asia and Agriculture
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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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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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China reports foot-and-mouth disease in hogs

(Reuters India) BEIJING – China, the world’s largest pork producer, has found foot-and-mouth disease among pigs in the central province of Hubei, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Tuesday. The virus was detected in 24 live pigs in the county of Badong on …