Biological and Toxic Weapons convention

The Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, official site, accessed January 5, 2009.

On November 21, 2001, she made similar statements to the Biological and Toxic Weapons convention in Geneva.

It is the six-year negotiations that are nearing completion to update the 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention.

Our security would be enhanced, therefore, if the effectiveness of the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention could be strengthened and its implementation improved.

The Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention (BWC) of 1972 does not specifically mention insect vectors in its text.

The Union is also encouraging Iran to participate fully in the work which will lead to the sixth conference to review the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, which is scheduled for 2006.

In 1972, the United States and 88 other countries signed the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention (BWC), which banned the "development, production and stockpiling of microbes or their poisonous products except in amounts necessary for protective and peaceful research."