Documents

Arrangements for the Third Session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention and the 2023 Meeting of States Parties (EN ES FR)

Aide Memoire (EN ES FR)

Chair's letter for the preparation of the Third Session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention

Indicative Timetable for the Third Session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the BWC, 4 - 8 December 2023

BWC/WG/3/CRP.1 - Draft procedural report of the third session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention

BWC/WG/3/1 - Procedural report of the third session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention

BWC/WG/3/INF.1 - List of participants

Working papers

BWC/WG/3/WP.1 - Updated concept paper on the International Agency for Biological Safety - Submitted by Kazakhstan

BWC/WG/3/WP.2 - Possible elements of a Draft Statute of the International Agency for Biological Safety - Submitted by Kazakhstan

BWC/WG/3/WP.3 - Military biological activities of the United States and Ukraine on the Ukrainian territory in violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction - Submitted by Russian Federation

BWC/WG/3/WP.4 - Proposal to enhance the format of confidence-building measures under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction - Submitted by Russian Federation

BWC/WG/3/WP.5 - Conceptual and methodological aspects of a possible mechanism of verification of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction - Submitted by Russian Federation

BWC/WG/3/WP.6 - Building global biosecurity via confidence in compliance with the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention - Submitted by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

BWC/WG/3/WP.7 - Enhancing the Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) Regime through the Integration of Global Health Security Metrics - Submitted by Uganda

BWC/WG/3/WP.8/Rev.1 - Key considerations when relaunching the discussion on verification and compliance in the context of the Biological Weapons Convention - Submitted by Denmark, Kenya, Malawi, Montenegro, Norway, Panama, Singapore, Thailand and Uruguay

BWC/WG/3/WP.9/Rev.1 - U.S. Approach to the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention - Submitted by the United States of America

BWC/WG/3/WP.10 - Verification Mechanism of the Biological Weapons Convention under New Circumstances - Submitted by China

BWC/WG/3/WP.11 - Strengthening Compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention through a Legally Binding Instrument - Submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran

BWC/WG/3/WP.12 - United States Right of Reply to the Russian Federation - Submitted by the United States of America

BWC/WG/3/WP.13 - Contemporary problems of verification under the BTWC. Historic work experience of the VEREX and the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BTWC - Submitted by the Russian Federation

BWC/WG/3/WP.14 - Enhancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment as an Integral Part of the Institutional Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) - Submitted by Panama

BWC/WG/3/WP.15 - Comments of the Ukrainian side with regard to the Working Paper BWC/WG/3/WP.3 submitted by the Russian Federation - Submitted by Ukraine

BWC/WG/3/WP.16 - Position of the European Union on Transparency and Confidence-Building within the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention - Submitted by the European Union

BWC/WG/3/WP.17 - Position of the European Union on Compliance with and Verification under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention - Submitted by the European Union

BWC/WG/3/WP.18 - Position of the European Union on Organizational, Institutional and Financial Arrangements within the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention - Submitted by the European Union