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Nepal Signs Instrument of Ratification of BWC

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

New York / Kathmandu

PGA was informed by the Foreign Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and PGA Member, Hon. Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat (MP) that His Excellency tabled the Bill on the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) in Parliament on 18th October, 2016 and that Parliament approved the Bill on 23rd October, 2016. Hon. Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat (MP) subsequently signed the Instrument of Ratification of the BWC of Nepal on 25th October, 2016 and it has since been transmitted to BWC Depository States.

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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.