From Global Security Newswire:
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is expected to reveal its approach to controlling biological weapons at a key international meeting next week, and a number of experts hope the new U.S. policy will help reduce global vulnerabilities and strengthen implementation of the 1975 Biological Weapons Convention.
The pact's 165 member states are expected to gather in an annual meeting taking place Dec. 7-11 in Geneva, Switzerland. The event could set the tone on global objectives for limiting bioweapons in the run-up to a formal review conference in 2011, according to those following the issue.
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My Comment: The UN has not been successful in stopping rogue states like North Korea and Iran from working on and developing nuclear weapons .... how can they be successful with biological weapons .... weapons that are easier to hide and harder to detect.
I guess the member states have to show the world that they are (at least) trying their best.
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