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States parties to gather in Geneva to discuss biological weapons

Xinhua, December 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

The 2015 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) from Dec. 14 to 18, it was announced Friday.

This year's meeting will discuss the convention and how to strengthen national implementation, and discuss and approve arrangements for the Eighth Review Conference and its Preparatory Committee in 2016.

The BWC was the first multilateral disarmament treaty to ban an entire category of weapons. With 173 states parties and nine states having signed but not yet ratified, the convention entered into force in 1975. Endit