Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction

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A Decision of the General Assembly, published in 2003.

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At its 57th plenary meeting, on 22 November 2002, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the First Committee:33

(a) Requested the Secretary-General to continue to render the necessary assistance to the depositary Governments of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, to provide such services as might be required for the implementation of the decisions and recommendations of the Review Conferences, as well as the decisions contained in the final report of the Special Conference of the States Parties to the Convention, held from 19 to 30 September 1994,34 and to render the necessary assistance and provide such services as might be required for the reconvening of the Fifth Review Conference at Geneva in November 2002;

(b) Decided to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction”.

3. Decisions adopted on the reports of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)

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