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Signing Off for 2007 |
| Published: December 14, 2007, 9:05 am |
| Tags: npt, oslo process, ammunition, cluster munitions, fissile material, nuclear weapons, arms trade treaty, erw, bwc, conference on disarmament, small arms, missiles, biological weapons |
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The (thankfully quite uncontroversial) Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention has just ended, bringing to a close a typically busy year of disarmament and arms control work in Geneva. In the previous posting, John Borrie reviewed 2007 as perceived and analysed through the lens of the Disarmament Insight blog. Before signing off for the year and wishing all of our dedicated readers a pleasant holiday, I would like (at the risk of ruining your festive repose) to cast an eye forward to what awaits us next year.Of course, we'll have all of the usual fare:-- The Conference on Disarmament will continue its struggle to break its now more than decade-long deadlock so that it can finally start negotiating a treaty banning the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons.-- States Parties to the Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention will continue their intersessional work programme (this time by holding expert meetings on biosafety and biosecurity, as well [ Full article ] |
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