The Central Importance of Legally Binding Measures for the

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Contents

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Executive Summary

Introduction 1

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention 3

Review Conferences 7

Article I 9

Article IV 29

Article V 36

VEREX, The Special Conference and the Ad Hoc Group 46

VEREX 46

Special Conference, September 1994 49

Ad Hoc Group 50

The Chairman’s composite text, March 2001 57

The United States Rejection, July 2001 63

Comparison of the Chairmans’s composite text and the Chemical Weapons Convention 70

Subsequent developments 77

Fifth Review Conference, November – December 2001 80

Resumed Fifth Review Conference, November 2002 89

Annual Meetings of the States Parties 92

Prospects for the Sixth Review Conference, 2006 100

UN Secretary-General High Level Panel on

Threats, Challenges and Change 108

Aims for the Sixth Review Conference 117

Conclusions 123