Presentations in 2017

Legal & Regulatory Consultation, Seminar organised by U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Muscat, Oman, 16–18 April 2017

• UNSCR 1540 and Treaty Requirements for Chemical and Biological Weapons, Strategic Trade Controls and Related Border Security
• Strategic Trade Control Development: Case Study #2: Malta as a European Union Member

Building A WMD-Free Zone on Existing Treaties and Conventions: Syrian CWC-Adherence and Reactions, Especially in Israel,

Side event to the 2017 Preparatory Committee of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), organised by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and Academic Peace Orchestra Middle East (APOME), Vienna, 8 May 2017

Future Challenges for the Chemical Weapons Convention,

Lecture in the cycle ‘Arms Control and Proliferation’, University of Antwerp, 11 May 2017

Universalisation of the BTWC in the Pacific Region (Fiji, 26 – 28 July 2017)

• Biological Weapons: Their threat, their control and the need for stakeholder involvement, Workshop for National Stakeholders, Nadi, Fiji, 26 July 2017
• EU Council Decision 2016/51 in support of the Biological Weapons Convention, Regional Workshop for the Pacific Region: Universalisation of the BWC, Nadi, Fiji, 27 July 2017
• Biological Weapons: Their threat, their control and the need for stakeholder involvement, Regional Workshop for the Pacific Region: Universalisation of the BWC, Nadi, Fiji, 27 July 2017
• Biological Weapons Convention: After accession/succession, The benefits, Regional Workshop for the Pacific Region: Universalisation of the BWC, Nadi, Fiji, 28 July 2017

Biological Weapons Convention: After accession/succession, The benefits,

Regional Workshop for the Pacific Region: Universalisation of the BWC, Nadi, Fiji, 28 July 2017

Biological Weapons Convention Article VII: Preparing for operationalisation,

Article VII Workshop – First Meeting, UNODA, Geneva, 11 September 2017

Biological Weapons Convention: Relevant science and technology review,

Regional Workshop for Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Implications of developments in science and technology for the Biological Weapons Convention, Kyiv, Ukraine, 21–22 September 2017

Biological Weapons Convention: Triggering Article VII,

Article VII Tabletop Exercise, UNODA, Geneva, 9 – 10 October 2017

National Implementation of the BTWC: Some Issues and Thoughts,

Global Biosecurity Challenges: Problems and Solutions, International conference, Sochi, Russian Federation, 1–2 November 2017

Article VII of the BTWC: Assistance in case of a treaty violation,

Workshop on the Biological Weapons Convention, Co-hosted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit (BWC-ISU), Geneva, 8 November 2017

Triggering Article VII of the BTWC: Conditions and basic scenarios,

Article VII of the BTWC: Initiating a request for assistance in case of exposure to a biological danger as a result of a violation of the Convention BTWC, Meeting of States Parties – Side Event Hosted by France, Geneva, 6 December 2017

Triggering Article VII of the BTWC: Conditions and basic scenarios,

Article VII of the BWC and the UN System, 2nd Workshop of the Project on strengthening global mechanisms and capacities for responding to deliberate use of biological agents, New York, 12-13 December 2017