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WMD Compliance and Enforcement: Lessons for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

WMD Compliance and Enforcement: Lessons for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

UNIDIR is pleased to welcome you to an interactive discussion on WMD Compliance and Enforcement (WMDCE). The event will draw from a series of thematic papers identifying successes, failures and lessons learnt on compliance and enforcement across WMD-related regimes. The side-event will focus particularly on implications for the BWC and discuss the following questions: 

• What has worked well in other WMD regimes, what has been unsuccessful?

• What can the BWC learn from the successes and failures with compliance and enforcement measures in other regimes?

A light lunch will be provided for participants from 13.00 onwards.

For further details of the WMD compliance and enforcement workstream, along with published papers, please click here

Speakers:

• Ambassador Maria Teresa Almojuela of the Philippines - Opening remarks

• Ralf Trapp - Compliance and Enforcement in the Chemical Weapons Regime.

• Filippa Lentzos - Compliance and Enforcement in the Biological Weapons Regime.

• James Revill - Findings from across WMD regimes with a focus on the BWC.  

John Borrie will Chair this event, with additional input from Pavel Podvig.

Presentation - WMD Compliance and Enforcement: Lessons for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)