Biological Weapons Convention Compliance and Verification 🔎📋🧫👩🏾‍🔬📜

The Friends of the Chair for compliance and verification, together with UNIDIR and ‪@unitednations_disarmament‬, organized this informal webinar in the context of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention.
The event aimed to stimulate thinking and discussion on the topic of compliance and verification during the intersessional period and consisted of an expert panel followed by a moderated question-and-answer session with the audience.
Speakers:
• Amb. Flavio Damico, Brazil, Chair of the BWC Working Group - Opening Remarks.
• Una Jakob, Head of Research Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons Control, PRIF.
• Ajey Lele, Deputy Director at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.
• Amanda Moodie, Policy Fellow at the US National Defense University.
• Leifan Wang, Associate Professor at Tianjin University School of Law and Center for Biosafety Research and Strategy.
• Friends of the Chair: Amb. Robert in den Bosch, The Netherlands, and Alonso Martínez Ruiz, Mexico - Closing remarks and ways forward.
The event was moderated by Dr. James Revill, Head of WMD Programme, UNIDIR.
When and Where: Monday, 13 May 2024 | 13:15 - 14:45 CEST | Online (via Zoom).
Resources:
☣️ Chemical and biological weapons research at UNIDIR: unidir.org/focus-area/chemica...
💣 Our Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme: unidir.org/wmd
🌐 UNIDIR website: unidir.org/