Biological Weapons Convention Meeting of Experts to convene in Geneva from 10 to 14 August 2015

The  Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Meeting of Experts in 2015 will take place at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 10 to 14 August 2015.  Formally known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, the Biological Weapons Convention was the first multilateral disarmament treaty to ban an entire category of weapons. Read more here. [source: UN Office at Geneva]