Biological Weapons Convention

The international community made progress with the biological weapons convention signed in 1972.

"What we're trying to do," one senior official said, "is send a signal that we require full compliance with the chemical and biological weapons conventions."

"What does this say to cheaters about the U.S. commitment to enforce the biological weapons convention?"

The Australians do disagree over proposals for enforcing the 1972 biological weapons convention, which the Bush administration rejects as flawed.

Mr. Bolton said that some of the countries blocking American proposals "were the very states who are not complying with the biological weapons convention."

The 1972 biological weapons convention, ratified by 143 countries, bans the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological and toxin weapons.

Israel is not a signatory to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

The Sunshine Project is also active in meetings of the Biological Weapons Convention, the main international treaty prohibiting biological warfare.

For example, it has joined the Nonproliferation Treaty, the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions, and has strengthened its export controls in accordance with each.

"This is a signal of our seriousness about compliance on arms control and the need to meet all obligations under the chemical and biological weapons conventions," a senior administration official said.

This project is part of the Army's biological defense research program, which we believe undermines the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention signed by this country and more than 100 other nations.

In conclusion, and as has already been said, one thing is certain and that is that there will be no protocol verifying the biological weapons convention in the short term.

On August 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon formally transmitted the Biological Weapons Convention to the United States Senate for ratification.

Who knows, maybe this could be a substantial step toward international agreements to permit verification of adherence to the chemical and biological weapons conventions that outlaw their manufacture, stockpiling and use.

Although the USSR also signed the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Soviets subsequently augmented their biowarfare programs.

Peremptory rejections of nuclear arms agreements, the biological weapons convention, environmental protection, anti-torture proposals, and punishment of war criminals have sometimes been combined with economic threats against those who might disagree with us.

Previous U.S. interpretation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) ban on biological agents was in line with the BWATA definition.

Algeria signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in January 1995, and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention In August 2001, Algeria acceded to the Biological Weapons Convention.

In a cynical betrayal of international trust, Moscow took the signing of a biological weapons convention in 1972 as the signal to start a clandestine crash program to expand its biological weaponry, not abandon such weapons as required.

The American move will create "some clouds on the horizon," a senior German official said, mentioning other recent American positions suspending negotiations on the strengthening of the biological weapons convention and opposing the proposed International Criminal Court.

The work of the conferences led to the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963 and the Seabed Arms Control Treaty of 1971, as well as the Nonproliferation Treaty and the Biological Weapons Convention.

The UK presented on the December 14, 2007 Meeting of States Parties of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), including efforts to encourage national implementation, strengthen export controls, and establish an international support unit facilitate BWC activities.

A6 Cuba Pursues Attack Claim Representatives of countries that have signed the Biological Weapons Convention agreed to further investigate Cuba's accusation that the United States launched a biological attack by using a cropduster to spew insects over the island in 1996.

He has been a delegate to many international conferences dealing with WMD proliferation, including the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, and the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference.