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EAM CALLS FOR MODERNISATION OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PACT
Hindustan Times Delhi
|December 02, 2025
External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday stressed on the rising possibilities of the misuse of biological weapons by non-state actors, and suggested that the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) must be modernised as it has no compliance system or mechanism to track new scientific developments.
He was addressing a conference on 50 years of the BWC in New Delhi, with the focus on strengthening biosecurity for the Global South.
This story is from the December 02, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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