Review conference of the parties to the convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction

The first Review Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction' was held at Geneva from 3 March to 21 March 1980, pursuant to article XII of the Convention which provides for such a Conference five years after the Convention’s entry into force with a view to assuring that the purposes of the preamble and the provisions of the Convention, including the provisions concerning negotiations on chemical weapons, are being realized. In the wording of the article, the review was to take into account any new scientific and technological developments relevant to the Convention.

Related Subject(s): Disarmament