The BWC was the first multilateral disarmament treaty to ban the production and use of an entire category of weapons.
The Eighth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention is being held in the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, from 7 to 25 November 2016.
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.