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SUMMARY:Considering potential lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic to strengthen the BTWC (Part 1 - virtual)
DESCRIPTION:This expert seminar aims to consider and determine the key issues highlighted by the pandemic that could be relevant to the disarmament and non-proliferation scope of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). The purpose is to explore the lessons that can be learned from this international public health crisis\, and the response\, that could have an impact on the Convention and help strengthen its implementation. The seminar will thus contribute to put into perspective questions that notably relate to national implementation and challenges to biosecurity stemming from advances in life sciences. Considering the scope of the Convention as well as the importance of developing interactions with other existing instruments\, organisations and mechanisms\, while respecting their respective mandates and avoiding duplication\, it will also provide an opportunity to reconsider the reflections pertaining to the implementation of Article VII on emergency assistance in case of a violation of the Convention\, and of Article X on cooperation and assistance. \n \n\n\n\nMonday\, 17 May 2021\n\n\n\n10:00 – 10:15 Introduction and Welcoming Remarks \n\nElisande Nexon (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique\, France)\nMauri Pasanen (Disarmament\, non-proliferation and arms export control\, EEAS)\n\n10:15 – 11:30 Session 1: Exploring the potential impact of the Covid-19 pandemic with regard to the implementation of the BTWC  \nChair: Una Jakob (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt\, Germany) \nSpeakers: \n\nJames Revill (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research\, Switzerland) – Current and future main challenges and perspectives for the BWC stemming from the pandemic\nFilippa Lentzos (Kings College London\, United Kingdom) – Global health\, research and dual use dilemma in the Covid-19 perspective\nGunnar Jeremias (Hamburg University\, Germany) – Potential impact of the pandemic on the BWC national implementation\nTatyana Novossiolova (Centre for the Study of Democracy\, Bulgaria) – Cross-sectorial awareness raising and education challenges and perspectives in life sciences\n\nDiscussion \n11:30 – 11:45 Break \n11:45 – 13:00 Session 2: Revisiting the prospects of cooperation for peaceful purposes and emergency assistance through the potential lessons of the pandemic \nChair: Elisande Nexon (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique\, France) \nSpeakers: \n\nJean Pascal Zanders (The Trench / FRS\, France) – Exploring the issue of emergency assistance in the framework of the BWC (reconsidering the reflections carried out until the pandemic)\nAlessandro Marcello (International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology\, Italy) – Promoting capacity building through cooperation and assistance\, the example of the ICGEB\nAnne-Sophie Lequarré (Service for Foreign Policy Instruments\, stability and Peace\, European Commission) – The contribution of EU CBRN Centres of Excellence to the COVID-19 response\nAntoine Flahault (Institute of Global Health\, Switzerland) – Strengthening preparedness and response to international biological public health emergencies\n\nDiscussion \n13h00 Conclusion \n\nDaniel Feakes (BTWC Implementation Support Unit\, UNODA\, Geneva Branch)
URL:https://nonproliferation.eu/evenement/ad-hoc-seminar-of-the-eu-non-proliferation-and-disarmament-consortium/
CATEGORIES:Ad Hoc Seminars
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