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Arms control &
disarmament projects
National
implementation workshops and seminars in 2006
VERTIC
and Gulf Research Center (GRC) seminar,
'Laying the foundations for a WMDFZ in the Gulf: approaches to national
legislation for WMD agreements'
Gulf Research Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2-3 May 2006
VERTIC and the Gulf Research Center in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates, held a joint seminar on 'Laying the foundations
for a WMDFZ in the Gulf: approaches to national legislation for WMD agreements'
in Dubai on 2-3 May 2006. Representatives from all nine Gulf states and
the major NBC treaty organizations participated, along with GRC and VERTIC
staff.
Programme
Participants
GRC
Press Release
Opening
Remarks
Day
2 presentations (VERTIC staff and speakers)
Introduction to national implementation for WMD agreements
Michael Crowley, Executive Director, VERTIC
National nuclear
weapons law
• ''The
CTBT - Legal Aspects of its Implementation'
Hans Holderbach, Legal Officer, Comprehensive Nuclear
Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
• 'Nuclear weapons treaties and national implementation'
Powerpoint Text
Andreas Persbo, Arms Control and Disarmament Researcher (Nuclear),
VERTIC
National biological
weapons law
• 'The
BWC and national implementation'
Angela Woodward, Deputy Director, VERTIC
• 'Overview
of a Model Law to Implement the Obligations in the 1972 Biological
Weapons Convention'
Christopher Harland, Legal Adviser, Advisory Service on IHL,
International Committee of the Red Cross
The
Legal Framework for Enforcement of the Chemical Weapons Convention
Lisa Tabassi, Office of the Legal Adviser, Organisation for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Implementing
UNSC Resolution 1540 (2004)
Dr Volker Beck, Expert, UN 1540 Committee
VERTIC would like to thank the UK Global Opportunities Fund (GOF) for
funding this event. For further information, please contact Jane Awford,
VERTIC's Information Officer and Networker, by email: jane.awford@vertic.org
or by telephone: +44 (0) 20 7065 0880.
The above publications
are available in portable document format (PDF) and require the installation
of Adobe Reader 4.0 or higher. To download a free copy of the software
visit the Adobe
website.
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