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British Scientific Panel Calls for Creation of BWC Advisory Group
The British Royal Society, the national academy of science, has called for the creation of a scientific advisory panel for the Biological Weapons Convention, BBC News reported today (see GSN, Nov. 23. 2003).
According to the Royal Society, treaty members should establish an agency similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which oversees the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which oversees the Chemical Weapons Convention.
“The absence of a formal scientific advisory panel is a major constraint to developing a more effective Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention,” said Julie Higgins, the society’s foreign secretary (Alex Kirby, BBC News, Jan. 20).
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