Nations had been negotiating a Verification Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in Geneva for much of the last decade to balance the needs of international security with national sovereignty, and transparency against commercial secrecy. There was also the conundrum of accommodating advances in biotechnology due to genetic engineering and emerging technologies within the BTWC. At this critical juncture, when the need for a Verification Protocol was the greatest, the US scuttled these negotiations ...
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Nations had been negotiating a Verification Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in Geneva for much of the last decade to balance the needs of international security with national sovereignty, and transparency against commercial secrecy. There was also the conundrum of accommodating advances in biotechnology due to genetic engineering and emerging technologies within the BTWC. At this critical juncture, when the need for a Verification Protocol was the greatest, the US scuttled these negotiations leading to their being suspended, without a clear vision of what alternative arrangements might be provided. The US wanted these negotiations to be postponed until 2006. The essays in this book address issues like anxieties in the biotech industry that a verification regime would compromise secrecy, whether the verification arrangements in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) could be extended to the BTWC, and the imperative for States to enact domestic legislation f
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