UN marks 50 years of Biological Weapons Convention

The UN on Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) – the first multilateral disarmament treaty to ban an entire category of weapons of mass destruction

The UN’s High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, in a statement, said that the world came together 50 years ago to ban biological weapons,.

She noted that in today’s volatile geopolitical climate, we can ill-afford to let this moral safeguard…