BWC useless in preventing bioterrorism.
Stats supporting the Biological Weapons Convention and anyone else believing they can reduce the abuse of biotechnology being used for producing bio-weapons are gravely mistaken. At best, we can build better surveillance and response networks to respond to bio events, man made or natural pandemics.
In the end, the only effective means of preventing bio terrorism and nature's pandemics is to transform our world from the current state where national sovereignty reigns supreme over human rights...to a world where the universal protection of human rights reigns supreme over national sovereignty and every religious ideology that with an extremist element.
In the current system even universal national adherence to BWC won't keep religious extremists from creating the most horrific weapons humanity has ever
Read the article below and pick out the falsities assumed by world leaders.
BWC Nations Should Weigh Impact of New Research, U.N. Chief Says
Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010
States parties to the Biological Weapons Convention should establish a system for assessing how scientific and technological advances could affect efforts to rid the world of biological weapons, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement to a meeting of the countries that started yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 3).
“While much is being done to promote assistance and cooperation for the peaceful uses of biological science and technology, more could still be done to improve coordination and communication,” Ban told the gathering. The event -- slated to continue through Friday in Geneva, Switzerland -- was the latest in a four-year series of meetings arranged at the 2006 BWC review conference with the goal of improving enforcement of the treaty and the pact's effectiveness in safeguarding against the production or employment of biological weapons (U.N. release I, Dec. 6).
The meetings have "been very successful in promoting ways to strengthen the implementation of the convention and to reduce the risks posed to global security by biological weapons and bioterrorism," Ban said. "In particular, it has produced common understandings that can serve as the basis for a wide range of national, regional and international actions.
"Next year, the seventh [BWC] review conference will consider how to build upon this work. Indeed, that meeting offers the best chance in a decade or more to reach significant agreements on the future of the convention," he said.
"You also face the challenge of achieving universal membership. Thirteen states have signed the convention without ratifying it, and 19 states have yet to sign it at all. I call on those states that have not done so to sign and ratify the convention without further delay.
"I encourage you to work together to develop practical proposals for the review conference, and to build on the sense of common purpose that has emerged," Ban added (U.N. release II, Dec. 6).
The Biological Weapons Convention has 163 states parties (U.N. release I).
In the end, the only effective means of preventing bio terrorism and nature's pandemics is to transform our world from the current state where national sovereignty reigns supreme over human rights...to a world where the universal protection of human rights reigns supreme over national sovereignty and every religious ideology that with an extremist element.
In the current system even universal national adherence to BWC won't keep religious extremists from creating the most horrific weapons humanity has ever
Read the article below and pick out the falsities assumed by world leaders.
BWC Nations Should Weigh Impact of New Research, U.N. Chief Says
Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010
States parties to the Biological Weapons Convention should establish a system for assessing how scientific and technological advances could affect efforts to rid the world of biological weapons, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement to a meeting of the countries that started yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 3).
“While much is being done to promote assistance and cooperation for the peaceful uses of biological science and technology, more could still be done to improve coordination and communication,” Ban told the gathering. The event -- slated to continue through Friday in Geneva, Switzerland -- was the latest in a four-year series of meetings arranged at the 2006 BWC review conference with the goal of improving enforcement of the treaty and the pact's effectiveness in safeguarding against the production or employment of biological weapons (U.N. release I, Dec. 6).
The meetings have "been very successful in promoting ways to strengthen the implementation of the convention and to reduce the risks posed to global security by biological weapons and bioterrorism," Ban said. "In particular, it has produced common understandings that can serve as the basis for a wide range of national, regional and international actions.
"Next year, the seventh [BWC] review conference will consider how to build upon this work. Indeed, that meeting offers the best chance in a decade or more to reach significant agreements on the future of the convention," he said.
"You also face the challenge of achieving universal membership. Thirteen states have signed the convention without ratifying it, and 19 states have yet to sign it at all. I call on those states that have not done so to sign and ratify the convention without further delay.
"I encourage you to work together to develop practical proposals for the review conference, and to build on the sense of common purpose that has emerged," Ban added (U.N. release II, Dec. 6).
The Biological Weapons Convention has 163 states parties (U.N. release I).
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