Issues for discussion at the 2005 Meeting of Experts of the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention

The content, promulgation and adoption of codes of conduct for scientists will be discussed at the Meeting of Experts to be held in Geneva between 13-24 June 2005 in preparation for the December 2005 Annual Meeting of the States Parties of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). Both of these Meetings will be chaired by Dr John Freeman, the UK Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. This paper gives brief answers to a number of issues that Dr Freeman has suggested that the States Parties might address at the Meeting of Experts.