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Report of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop Cantacuzino Institute: Bucharest 3-5 June 1999
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The CWC Verification Regime: Implications for the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industry
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The Necessity for Non-Challenge Visits
YesIn the discussions that have taken place over the past six years since the establishment by the Third Review Conference1 in 1991 of the Ad Hoc Group of Governmental Experts,known as VEREX, to identify and examine potential verification measures from a scientific and technical viewpoint, there has been an increasing debate about the role of non-challenge
visits in a regime for a strengthened Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). The arguments as to why on-site investigations are an essential and central element to such a strengthened regime were addressed in the Briefing Paper issued2 in July 1997. In this Briefing Paper, the necessity for non-challenge visits is addressed drawing upon the previous VEREX, Ad Hoc Group (AHG), Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) experience. The advantages and disadvantages of a regime containing non-challenge visits are considered and the conclusion is reached that the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages and that non-challenge visits are an important element which could contribute significantly to the effectiveness of a future legally binding instrument to strengthen the BTWC
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Relevant Scientific and Technological Developments for the First CWC Review Conference: The BTWC Review Conference Experience
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Two Decades of Strengthening CBW Prohibitions: Priorities for the BTWC in the 21st Century
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Article X: Some Building Blocks
YesThe Ad Hoc Group (AHG) of the States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons
Convention (BTWC) has the consideration of measures to implement Article X of the
Convention as an element of its mandate agreed by the Special Conference in September
1994. The AHG has considered how to address this at each of its substantive meetings with
a Friend of the Chair, initially Ambassador Jorge Berguno of Chile and subsequently, Carlos Duarte of Brazil carrying out this responsibility. As progress is being made on the development of the rolling text for the Protocol to strengthen the Convention, it is timely to consider how the implementation of Article X might contribute to the strengthening of the effectiveness of the Convention.
This Briefing Paper considers some of the developments that have occurred nationally,
regionally and internationally in respect of the use of bacteriological (biological) agents and toxins for peaceful purposes. It has become apparent that there is increasing awareness world-wide because of public health and environmental concerns of the need to control the handling, use, storage and transfer of such biological agents. This paper examines some of the current controls and regulations for biological agents and the international initiatives that are ongoing to strengthen biosafety around the world. These are seen as building blocks
which might be considered from a point of view of strengthening the BTWC as well as
contributing to the implementation of Article X although care will need to be taken in the Protocol for the AHG to avoid unnecessary duplication with other international activities. The challenging goal is to identify how these other national, regional and international
activities can be utilised to contribute to the strengthening of the BTWC
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