#BiologicalWeapons #Thread
1/ On 4 April the 9th #1972BWC Preparatory Committee will convene until the 11th.
It had been proposed to have a 1-day meeting, basically to decide on postponing the PrepCom until later because the NPT Review Conference was rescheduled to August, ...
2/ ... which meant overlap with the dates foreseen for the BTWC RevCon.
Also, the Non-Aligned Movement is still not able to find consensus on nominating the President for the BTWC RevCon.
However, a BTWC state party had to break the silent procedure, as a consequence of which ...
3/ ... the full PrepCom meeting will go ahead.

What can we expect to happen?
Well, after 3 sessions in the #UNSC accusing #Ukraine of harbouring #BiologicalWeapons programmes funded by the #USA, the #EuropeanUnion and #Germany in its laboratories, and ...
4/ #ChemicalWeapons use preparations by UKR defendants, #Russia has circulated 2 thick Notes Verbale to the BTWC States parties detailing its accusations against the West.

The first one (16 March) contained an annex of 68 pages.
5/ The second one (22 March) has an annex of no less than 136 pages).

All documents #Russia supposedly recovered during its #invasionofUkraine. However, many (or at least their information) are publicly available.
6/ I guess presentation and (angry) discussion of these #Disinformation documents will make up a central aspect of the PrepCom meeting.
7/ And I guess will hear the traditional line-up of "PRIICC"s + some newer members of that infamous opportunistic coalition take the stage in support of (or at least denying) the unprovoked #invasionofUkraine.
8/ My not too difficult prediction is that this 9th #1972BWC PrepCom will be historic in many respects.

However, BTWC-supporting states parties must not forget that at the end of the RevCon, there is a real risk of losing much, including a continued mandate for the @BWCISU!!!

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1/ Deliberate targeting of industrial facility to realease ammonia as a #ChemicalWeapons in #Ukraine️ by #Russia.

However, event was announced!

theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
2/ Last Saturday (19/03), the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev announced that:
3/ In Sumy, at the Sumykhimprom chemical plant, nationalists mined storage facilities with ammonia and chlorine in order to mass poison the inhabitants of the Sumy region if units of the Russian Armed Forces entered the city," he said, calling it "completely outrageous facts.
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