VERTIC’s Programme Director for National Implementation, Scott Spence, participated in Fact-Finding Visits in Viet Nam and Lao PDR during 29 January through 2 February as part of EU CBRN Risk Mitigation Centres of Excellence Project 61. These were the third two of ten visits to the project countries through March 2018.
NIM Senior Legal Officer participates in GPWG
The Remote Warfare Programme, part of the Oxford Research Group, has recently released a briefing paper authored by Katherine Tajer, formerly a researcher with VERTIC’s Verification and Monitoring Programme.
Senior Legal Officer participates in OIE ad hoc group on veterinary legislation
VERTIC’s Programme Director for National Implementation, Scott Spence, participated in Fact-Finding Visits in Myanmar and Cambodia during 12-21 January as part of EU CBRN Risk Mitigation Centres of Excellence Project 61.
Scott Spence, Programme Director for National Implementation, took part in the Wilton Park Conference “The CWC: the fourth Review Conference and beyond” during 22-24 January.
VERTIC welcomes Senior Legal Officer Yasemin Balci
VERTIC congratulates the State of Palestine on becoming the 180th State Party to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. The State of Palestine deposited its instrument of accession with Russia and the United Kingdom (two of the Convention’s depositaries) on 9 January 2018.
Scott Spence, Programme Director for National Implementation and Larry MacFaul, Programme Director for Verification and Monitoring, participated in the 2017 EU Non-proliferation and Disarmament Conference during 12-13 December in Palais d’Egmont, Brussels.
On 7 – 8 December 2017, VERTIC in collaboration the Namibian Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation hosted a training workshop on International Safeguards, Non-Proliferation and Control of Nuclear Material in Windhoek, Namibia.