Biological weapons

• Presentation and position of France

  • Text on the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction
  • Presentation and position of France

• 2023

  • BTWC - Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention (August 7th - 18th 2023)
  • BWC – Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention (Geneva, 15-16 March 2023)

• 2022

  • BTWC – 9th Review Conference (Geneva, 28 November – 16 December 2022)
  • Biological Weapons Convention (BTWC) - Formal Consultative Meeting under Article V (Geneva, 5-9 September 2022)
  • BWC - Preparatory Committee (4-11 April 2022)
  • BTWC - Preparatory Committee - Statement by the Ambassador M. Yann HWANG

• 2021

  • BWC - Meeting of States Parties (Geneva, 22-26 November 2021)
  • BWC - Side-Event of the Meeting of States Parties: Strengthening Global Biological Safety & Security through the Operationalization of the BTWC (23 November 2021, online)
  • BWC - Side-Event of the Meeting of States Parties: Strengthening Global Biological Safety & Security through the Operationalization of the BTWC
  • BWC - Meetings of Experts (Geneva, 30 August-8 September 2021)

• 2019

  • Review of France’s chairmanship of the Meeting of States Parties to the BWC (3-6 December 2019)
  • 2019 BWC MSP chaired by France, Geneva (3-6 December 2019)

• 2018

• 2017

  • Side-event : BTWC Article VII (6 December, 2017)
  • BWC: Meeting of the States parties, from the 4th to the 8th of December, 2017, Geneva

• 2016

  • BWC: Final report of the tabletop exercise on article VII (8-9 November 2016)
  • BWC: 8th review conference - statement delivered by France at the closing session (25/11/2016)
  • BWC: 8th review conference (Geneva, November 7/25, 2016) - Presentation of the conclusions of a tabletop exercise on article VII of the BWC
  • BWC: Preparatory Committee (8-12 August 2016) - Working paper of France and India
  • BWC: Preparatory Committee - Working breakfast - August 11th, 2016
  • BWC: Preparatory Committee - Statement of France - August 8th, 2016
  • First preparatory committee for the Eighth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (Geneva, 26th & 27th of April, 2016)
  • BWC: Preparatory Committee - Intervention of France (26/04/2016)

• 2015

  • BWC: Meeting of the State-parties (14-18 December 2015) - Interventions of France
  • BWC: Meeting of experts (10-14 August 2015) - General statement delivered by Mr Louis Riquet, 10th of August, 2015
  • 90th anniversary of the Geneva Protocol (17th of June, 2015)
  • BWC: Meeting of the State-parties (14-18 December 2015) - side event : 1925-2015: the 90th anniversary of the Geneva Protocol

• 2014

  • BWC: Meeting of the State-parties - Side-event on the peer review (on the 4th of December, 2014)
  • BWC : Intervention of Mr Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel (Geneva, 7 August 2014)
  • BWC: Meeting of the State-parties - Intervention on the article VII (Geneva, on the third of December, 2014)
  • BWC : Intervention of Mr Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel (Geneva, 4 August 2014)
  • Signature of a grant agreement France/WHO - 7 July 2014
  • BWC: Meeting of the State-parties - Intervention on the national implementation (Geneva, on the 3rd of December, 2014)
  • BWC : Report on the pilot exercise illustrating the concept of peer-review mechanism.
  • BWC: Meeting of the States parties - General statement of France (Geneva, on the 1st of December, 2014)
  • Meeting of experts of the BWC (Geneva, 4-8 August, 2014)

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