Overview
The third session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention took place in Room XVII at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland from 4 to 8 December 2023.
The Working Group was chaired by H.E. Ambassador Flavio Soares Damico of Brazil, with H.E. Ambassador Camille Petit of France and Mr. Irakli Jgenti of Georgia as Vice-Chairs.
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)
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
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
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