Arms control & disarmament projects

National implementation workshops and seminars in 2006

Middle East regional workshop, 'Approaches to national legislation for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons agreements'
Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC-Amman)
Amman, Jordan, 29-30 August 2006
VERTIC held a 2-day regional workshop for Middle East states on 'Approaches to national legislation for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons agreements' at the Cooperative Monitoring Center in Amman, Jordan (CMC-Amman) on 29-30 August 2006. The workshop attracted the participation of some 20 representatives from Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria and Turkey. The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) also sent a representative.

VERTIC is grateful to the UK Global Opportunities Fund (GOF) for funding the workshop and to the Cooperative Monitoring Centre in Amman for its excellent administrative support.

Agenda

Welcome address
General (Rtd) Mohammad Shiyyab, Director, Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC-Amman)

An introduction to VERTIC's National Implementation Measures (NIM) Project
Michael Crowley, Executive Director, VERTIC

Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540
Dr Volker Beck, Expert, UN 1540 Committee

National biological weapons law
Angela Woodward, Deputy Director, VERTIC

Overview of a Model Law to Implement the Obligations in the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention
Chérif Atlam, Regional Coordinator of Advisory Services, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• English version-click here
• Arabic version-click here

National chemical weapons law
Lisa Tabassi, Legal Officer, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

The Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS)
Iyad Al-Dasouqi, Engineer, CMC-Amman

National nuclear weapons law
Andreas Persbo, Arms Control and Disarmament Researcher (Nuclear), VERTIC

National implementation of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM)
Tufan Höbek, Legal Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations

National enforcement of nuclear weapons treaties
Dr. Friedrich Steinhäusler, Professor of Biophysics and Physics, University of Salzburg, Austria

Wrap-up session talking points
Angela Woodward, Deputy Director, VERTIC

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