Fortieth Anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention Marked in Geneva

A view of the panel at today's commemorative event marking the fortieth anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The event is taking place in the Council Chamber in the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the same room in which the Committee of the Conference on Disarmament negotiated the BWC from 1969 to 1971.
Pictured, from left: Caitriona McLeish, Senior Fellow, University of Sussex; Masood Khan, Director-General, Institute for Strategic Studies Islamabad and President of the Sixth BWC Review Conference; Representative of UNODA; Michael Møller, Acting Director General of United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and Acting Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament; Mazlan Muhammad, Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the UN Office at Geneva and Chairman of the 2015 BWC Meeting of States Parties; Daniel Feakes, Chief of the BWC Implementation Support Unit; Mikhail Ulyanov, Director, Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; J. Walker, Head, Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and Robert Wood; U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament and U.S. Special Representative for BWC Convention Issues.