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VERTIC staff speak about national implementation measures at several meetings held by other organizations.

If your organization will be holding an event to promote or facilitate national implementation of NBC obligations, and you would like to have it listed here, please send details to rocio.escauriaza[at]vertic.org

 

2010

AUGUST

VERTIC will participate in the 2010 BWC Meeting of Experts

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 23 to 27 August

VERTIC Statement


2009

December

VERTIC participates in the Meeting of States Parties to the BWC

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 7 to 11 December

VERTIC Statement

BWPP Statement

VERTIC participates in the 14th Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention

Location: The Hague, The Netherlands

Date: 30 November to 4 December

Presenters: Scott Spence (Senior Legal Officer)

VERTIC presentation:

VERTIC’s National Implementing Measures Programme

October

BWC Workshop in Riyadh

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Date: 20-21 October

Presenters: Angela Woodward (Program Director) and Scott Spence (Senior Legal Officer)

VERTIC presentations:

Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) for the 1972 Biological Weapons Conventionon and Transcript

Regional perspectives: the BWC in the Middle East/North Africa Regional Perspectives

National Implementation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and UN Security Council Resolution 1540

VERTIC’s National Implementing Measures Programme

 

For further information please visit the BWC Implementation Support Unit's website.

UN press release

A Civil Society Session. Resolution 1540: At the Crossroads

Location: New York, United States

Date: 1 October

Presenters: Rocío Escauriaza Leal, Legal Officer

For further information please visit the Stanley Foundation's website

VERTIC Statement

Report of the Conference: Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 at the national level: promotion of best practices and policy and technical co-ordination and co-operation

Report on VERTIC’s Technical Coordination Meeting: For legislative assistance facilitators and providers in the nuclear, chemical and biological weapons fields

September

BTWC Workshop in Astana

Location: Astana, Kazakhstan

Date: 16-17 September

Presenters: Scott Spence, Senior Legal Officer

 

August

2009 BWC Meeting of Experts - VERTIC Statement

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 24 August 2009

Presenter: Scott Spence, Senior Legal Officer

VERTIC Statement

2008

DECEMBER

UNIDIR side event at the BWC Meeting of States Parties

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 4 December 2008

Presenter: Angela Woodward, Executive Director, VERTIC

Title: 'Reaching a tipping point: achieving the universalization of the CBMs in the BWC'

Presentation

2008 BWC Meeting of States Parties - VERTIC Statement

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 1st December 2008

Presenter: Rocío Escauriaza Leal, Legal Officer

VERTIC Statement in English, Spanish and French

AUGUST

2008 BWC Meeting of Experts - Poster session on Biosafety and Biosecurity

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 19 August 2008

Presenter: VERTIC

Title: 'National Implementation Measures for Effective Biosecurity and Biosafety'

VERTIC's Poster

2008 BWC Meeting of Experts - VERTIC Statement

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 18 August 2008

Presenter: Rocío Escauriaza Leal

VERTIC's Statement in English, French and Spanish

 

JUNE

Seminar on 'Building Stakeholdership in Support of Malawi’s Ratification of the BTWC'

Location: Lilongwe, Malawi

Date: 5 June 2008

Presenter: Rocio Escauriaza Leal, Research Assistant, VERTIC

Title: VERTIC Presentation on 'National Implementation of BTWC Obligations'

English (PDF 238kb)

 

April

CWC Second Review Conference – Open Forum: ‘The Chemical Weapons Convention- Recent experiences and future prospects’

Location: The Hague, The Netherlands

Date: 9 April 2008

Presenter: Angela Woodward, Executive Director, VERTIC

Title: VERTIC Statement on 'National Implementation'

English (PDF 49kb)

Other statements and presentations

 

February

International Institute of Humanitarian Law - ‘The Chemical Weapons Convention between Disarmament and International Humanitarian Law’

Location: San Remo, Italy

Date: 12 February 2008

Presenter: Angela Woodward, Executive Director, VERTIC

Title: 'REPORT OF THE SEMINAR ON “THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION BETWEEN DISARMAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW'

English (PDF 66kb)

2007

DECEMBER

2007 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 10-14 December 2007

Presenter: Angela Woodward, Executive Director, VERTIC

Title: 'Practical contributions of civil society to national implementation and regional cooperation'

English (PDF 107kb)
Spanish (PDF 111kb)

NOVEMBER

OPCW Open-Ended Group Meeting concerning the Second Review Conference of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)

Location: The Hague, Netherlands

Date: 19 November 2007

Presenter: Rocio Escauriaza, VERTIC Research Assistant

Title: 'VERTIC statement to the OPCW Open-Ended Group Meeting'
English (PDF 102k)
Spanish (PDF 112k)

OPCW press release on the meeting

AUGUST

2007 Meeting of Experts to the Biological Weapons Convention

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 20-24 August 2007

Presenter: BWC Implementation Support Unit, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, Geneva

Title: 'International and Regional Initiatives to Enhance National Implementation of the Convention'

2007 Meeting of Experts to the Biological Weapons Convention

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 20-24 August 2007

Presenter: The Governments of the Kingdom of Netherlands and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Title: 'Building Capacity to Implement the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: Summary of a VERTIC Project'

BWC-MSP-2007-MX-WP.3  

2007 Meeting of Experts to the Biological Weapons Convention

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 20-24 August 2007

Presenter: The Government of Switzerland

Title: 'National data collection processes for CBM submissions'
Paper written with the participation of VERTIC

ICRC Regional Meeting on National Implementation of International Humanitarian Law in the Americas

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Date: 6-7 August 2007

Presenter: Angela Woodward

Title: 'National measures to prevent violations of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention'

JULY

UN 1540 Committee meeting with non-governmental organizations (NGOs)working on UNSCR 1540 projects

Location: New York, New York, USA

Date: 12 July 2007

VERTIC representative: Angela Woodward

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2006

DECEMBER

VERTIC/Interpol seminar at the BWC Sixth Review Conference

Location: Geneva, Switzerland (on the margins of the BWC Sixth Review Conference)

Date: 5 Dec 2006

Presenter: Angela Woodward

Title:  'Interpol's Model Law to prohibit biocrimes and to promote biosafety and biosecurity'

NOVEMBER

ICRC Regional Workshop on International Humanitarian Law: 'New Treaties and Implementation—the East Asian perspective'

Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Date: 30 Nov-1 Dec
Presenter: Angela Woodward
Title: 'The national implementation of weapons related treaties'

VERTIC Statement to the Sixth Review Conference for the 1972 Biological Weapons Conference

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Date: 21 November 2006

Presenter: Michael Crowley

South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSU) Conference: 'Strengthened Export Controls: Pakistan's Export Control Experience—Current and Future Challenges and Options'

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Date: 16-17 November 2006

Presenter: Andreas Persbo

Title: 'UN Security Council Resolution 1540 and its relevance for global export controls'

SOAS and British Pugwash Conference: 'The Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone'

Location: London, United Kingdom

Date: 7 November

Presenter: Michael Crowley

Title: 'Steps towards a Middle East WMD Free Zone—examining verification and national implementation measures'

Further information about the conference >>

AUGUST

ICRC Regional Workshop on International Humanitarian Law

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date: 22-23 August 2006

Presenter: Angela Woodward

Title: 'National measures to implement the Biological Weapons Convention in Latin America' ('Medidas tomadas por los Estados de América Latina para aplicar la Convención de 1972 sobre armas biológicas')

JULY

Interpol Regional Training Workshop on Bioterrorism

Location: Santiago, Chile

Date: 10-14 July 2006

Presenter: Angela Woodward

Title: 'A Model Law: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Crimes Act'

MARCH

Interpol Bioterrorism Prevention Training Workshop for Asian countries

Location: Singapore

Date: 27-31 March 2006

Presenter: Angela Woodward

Title: 'A Model Law: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Crimes Act'

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