THE future of biological weapons control hangs in the balance this week. As
Â鶹´«Ã½ went to press, the 144 signatories to the 1972 Biological
Weapons Convention were debating in Geneva whether there was any point in having
further discussions.
Since 1980, there have been a series of meetings to review the treaty and to
discuss ways of enforcing it. But earlier this year, the US rejected a treaty
protocol that set out various enforcement measures.
“The draft protocol that was under negotiation for the past seven years is
dead, and it is not going to be resurrected,” John Bolton,…
