Covering letter to Foreign and Commonwealth
Office dated 15 August 2002
1. I have pleasure in sending you copies
of:
Review Conference Paper No 7: Return to Geneva:
A Comprehensive List of Measures[2]
This Paper goes beyond the ideas expressed in
Review Conference Paper No 6, when I evaluated the recent Foreign
Office Green Paper, by developing and considering a comprehensive
list of the measures proposed by the States Parties either in
their statements or in their papers to the initial session of
the Fifth Review Conference in November 2002. My intention is
to help the States Parties make progress at the resumption of
the Review Conference towards strengthening of the BTWC regime
through consideration of measures such as these at future meetings
in 2003 and later years.
2. The analysis of all these measures in
this Paper shows that these measures would in general not incur
an unnecessary burden on legitimate activities yet they would
bring benefits to the States Parties to the BTWC. It is also evident
that an interim supportive institution or bureau would be immensely
beneficial in helping to nurture and sustain the Convention between
the Review Conferences and could be highly effective in taking
forward several of the proposed measures. The States Parties at
the resumption of the Fifth Review Conference on 11 November 2002
are urged to use such a comprehensive list of measures to strengthen
the Convention as the basis for an agreement to take these forward
through negotiation at meetings subsequent to the Review Conference
supported by an interim supportive institution or bureau.
Professor Graham Pearson
15 August 2002
2 Not printed. This document is posted on the website:
www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/sbtwc/ Back
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