Biological Weapons Convention

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Welcome to the Biological Weapons Convention Regional Workshop website. This website has been designed specifically to allow South-East Asian government officials and experts to participate in follow-up activities to the workshops, and to provide a forum for the ongoing exchange of views on regional efforts to reduce the risk of inadvertent support for the hostile use of biological agents or bio-terrorism. The website also seeks to engage the broader scientific community in our region in efforts to improve national implementation of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.

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States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) met in Geneva, Switzerland, from 26 to 28 April 2006 at the Preparatory Committee for the Sixth Review Conference of the BWC. The Committee decided that the Review Conference would be held in Geneva from 20 November to 8 December. The Preparatory Committee was chaired by Ambassador Masood Khan of Pakistan, who has been nominated as President of the forthcoming RevCon. Malaysia prepared a statement for the Preparatory Committee on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. Background documentation prepared by the Secretariat will be circulated no later than four weeks before the opening of the Conference.
		L to R: Professor Michael Crommelin, Dean of Law at The University of Melbourne; Senator the Hon Robert Hill, Australian Minister for Defence; and Mr Wahid Supriyadi, Indonesian Consul General to Melbourne, at the First BWC Regional Workshop in Melbourne, February 2005

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