Seminar on the OPCW's contribution to security and the non-proliferation of chemical weapons

James Revill attended the Seminar on the OPCW's contribution to security and the non-proliferation of chemical weapons in The Hague. This meeting included a panel session on the convergence between biology and chemistry in which a number of panellists highlighted the rapid development of science and technology and discussed the implications for both the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention. One of the outcomes of this panel was the suggestion that the OPCW Secretariat could “initiate a series of informal thematic meetings of experts to review the implications of the convergence between chemistry and biology on the OPCW”; further adding that such work could “interact with processes already on-going as the intersessional process of the BTWC and the ISU”.

For further details and information on this meeting see the OPCW Seminar Documents page.

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