US EditionU.S. marks 50th anniversary of Biological Weapons Convention
- March 26 marks the 50th anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention , which bans the development and use of biological weapons, with 188 countries participating.
- Secretary-General António Guterres called for universal adherence to the BWC, urging the nine non-signatory countries to ratify the treaty.
- The BWC remains crucial as a barrier against biological weapons, reinforcing its importance amid global health challenges.
- The U.S. Commemorated the anniversary, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio affirming commitment to the BWC and addressing ongoing threats from biological weapons.
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Africa: Biological Weapons 'Must Not Only Be Unthinkable but Also Impossible'
The world came together 50 years ago to ban biological weapons and in today's volatile geopolitical climate we can ill-afford to let this moral safeguard "erode", the UN's High Representative for Disarmament Affairs said on Wednesday.
UN marks 50 years of Biological Weapons Convention
The 10 states that have neither signed nor ratified the BWC are Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Israel, Kiribati, Micronesia, Namibia, South Sudan, and Tuvalu. The post UN marks 50 years of Biological Weapons Convention appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
Biological weapons ‘must not only be unthinkable but also impossible’
The world came together 50 years ago to ban biological weapons and in today’s volatile geopolitical climate we can ill-afford to let this moral safeguard “erode”, the UN’s High Representative for Disarmament Affairs said on Wednesday.
U.S. marks 50th anniversary of Biological Weapons Convention
The U.S. State Department Wednesday commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement implemented in 1975 to stop the development and use of biological and toxin weapons.
Small Pox and Modernity
On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated small pox from the world’s population. The last case occurred in Somalia in 1977, and the last case in the United States occurred in 1949. This news delighted everyone, in that small pox had plagued humanity for centuries. Human ingenuity had defeated small pox...
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