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Nepal and Liberia deposit Instruments of Ratification of Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

PGA wishes to warmly congratulate, and pay tribute to, its Members in Nepal, Hon. Foreign Minister Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat MP as well as Hon. Minister Ramesh Lekhak MP for their central and essential contributions over the past 12 months, together with others, culminating in the ratification by Nepal of the Biological Weapons Convention on 4th November 2016, as signed by Nepal on 10th April 1972.

PGA Member, Hon. Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat (MP), Foreign Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal

PGA Member, Hon. Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat (MP), Foreign Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal

 Hon. Ramesh Lekhak, MP (Nepal)

Hon. Ramesh Lekhak, MP (Nepal)


PGA wishes to warmly congratulate, and pay tribute to, its Member, Senator Steven Zargo, Chairman of the Defence and Security Committee of the Senate of Liberia, as well as former PGA Member and former Senator Mr. Franklin Siakor for their central and essential contributions over the past 12 months, together with others, culminating in the ratification by Liberia of the Biological Weapons Convention on 4th November 2016, as signed by Liberia on 10th April 1972.

Stephen Zargo has been a member of the Senate of Liberia since January 2015.

Stephen Zargo has been a member of the Senate of Liberia since January 2015.

 former Senator Mr. Franklin Siakor

Former Senator Mr. Franklin Siakor

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Somalia, The Gambia and Guinea encouraged to comply with reporting requirements under UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)

Recent media articles encourage their governments to take positive steps.

Statement by former PGA Member Hon. Kindness Paradza on the domestication of the Biological Weapons Convention in Zimbabwe

Statement by former PGA Member Hon. Kindness Paradza on the domestication of the Biological Weapons Convention in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe Government has domesticated the UN Biological Weapons Convention by drafting the Biological Weapons Bill.

South Sudan deposited its Instrument of Accession to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) with the US State Department, Washington D.C, becoming the 185th State Party to the BWC

South Sudan becomes the 185th State Party to the Biological Weapons Convention

PGA warmly congratulates the Government of South Sudan on the occasion of this deposit of Instrument of Accession to the BWC, notwithstanding the many challenges it is currently confronting at the national level.