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The BTWC and CWC Facing Scientific Change

2015
Both the BTWC and the CWC have built-in mechanisms designed to deal with scientific and technological change. Article XII of the BTWC states that: Five years after the entry into force of this Convention…a conference of States Parties to the Convention shall be held at Geneva, Switzerland, to review the operation of the Convention, with a view to ...
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Developing the BTWC, 1975–1995

2002
At a seminar in March 2000, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the entry into force of the BTWC, Nicholas Sims noted: ‘Looking back over our Convention’s first 25 years in force, we find, not a simple linear progress ever onward and upward, but a more complicated history…’.1 In his view, the Convention’s first quarter-century has been complicated by ‘
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Reporting of Outbreaks of Disease under BTWC Confidence-Building Measures

2001
The Second Review Conference of the States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in 1986 realized that the BTWC needed to be strengthened. The conference adopted a set of confidence-building measures (CBMs) designed to provide greater transparency with respect to activities directly related to the BTWC1.
Erhard Geissler, John P. Woodall
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Building Peaceful Co-Operation into The BTWC Verification Protocol

2002
Evidence continues to accumulate, from around the world, of the proliferation of biological weapons.1,2 This is increasing the desire of states to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), but whilst the core elements of a BTWC Protocol will be concerned with compliance, that is with declaration of the most relevant facilities, non-
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Battle lines redrawn in BTWC debate

Nature Biotechnology, 1999
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Confidence‐building measures for the BTWC: Performance and potential

Nonproliferation Review, 2000
Marie Isabelle Chevrier, Iris Hunger
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The Relevance of Advances in Biotechnology to the Task of Strengthening the BTWC

2000
Our interest here is in investigating how the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) might best be strengthened prior to the Fifth Review Conference in 2001. Whilst we discuss how we can build on the Geneva Protocol of 1925, the 1975 Convention itself, the Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) added in 1986 and developed in 1991, and the VEREX ...
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The Negotiation of the BTWC Protocol

2002
As we saw in Chapter 3, the mandate given to the Ad Hoc Group (AHG) was complex, and it was recognized by the 1994 Special Conference that reaching a satisfactory agreement would not be straightforward.1 A further level of complexity was due to the negotiations being genuinely multilateral. There are over 140 States Parties to the BTWC and it is clear,
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The Protocol to Strengthen the Btwc: An Integrated Regime

Politics and the Life Sciences, 1998
The Ad Hoc Group established in 1994 to draft proposals to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention through a legally binding instrument has now met twelve times. Its negotiations successfully transitioned in July 1997 to consideration of a draft protocol, the sixth version of which has now been produced.
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