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Science 20 July 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5529, pp. 414 - 416
DOI: 10.1126/science.293.5529.414
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TREATY COMPLIANCE:
Down to the Wire on Bioweapons Talks

Richard Stone

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.--A quarter-century after entering into force, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) still has no mechanism for checking on whether states parties are obeying the ban on developing biological weapons and is little more than an agreement based on trust. On 23 July, the Ad Hoc Group of the States Parties to the BWC will meet in Geneva for a 4-week session to hammer out rules that BWC state parties must abide by. The measures would include mandatory investigations of facilities suspected of contravening the treaty as well as visits to declared facilities that are not under suspicion, plus export controls on organisms and technologies that might be used to develop biological weapons. The challenge will be to win over U.S. policy-makers.

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