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National Assembly of Central African Republic has Ratified the Biological Weapons Convention

Hon. Beatrice Epaye, Chairperson of the PGA National Group in the National Assembly of the Central African Republic.
Hon. Beatrice Epaye, Chairperson of the PGA National Group in the National Assembly of the Central African Republic.

PGA Congratulates National Assembly of Central African Republic on Ratification of Biological Weapons Convention on 3rd July 2018.

PGA was pleased to be informed by Hon. Beatrice Epaye, Chairperson of the PGA National Group in the National Assembly of the Central African Republic, and Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, that the National Assembly of CAR yesterday in Bangui ratified the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention - July 3rd, 2018.

PGA Congratulates the National Assembly and, in particular Hon. Beatrice Epaye and all Members of the PGA National Group of CAR in this very important achievement.

Hon. Beatrice Epaye participated in PGA's Regional Africa Parliamentary Workshop to Promote Universality and National Implementation of the BWC in Freetown, Sierra Leone in March 2017

PGA looks forward to signature and deposit of Instrument of Ratification of BWC of the Central African Republic later in 2018.

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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.