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The Biological And Toxin Weapons Convention And
Iraq
Motion in the UK Parliament has been tabled for a third time
10/20/05 "PIMS"
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Mitchell, Austin
That this House notes that the Biological and Toxin Weapons
Convention binds signatories not to transfer to any nation any
agents, toxins, weapons and equipment of biological and toxin
warfare and provides that any nation finding another signatory in
breach of this undertaking may lodge a complaint to the UN Security
Council;
Notes that the Riegle Report to the US Senate has published evidence
that the US sold bacillus anthracis, clostridium botulinum,
histoplasma capsulatum, brucella, melitensis and clostridium
perfringens to agencies of the Iraqi government pursuant to export
licences issued by the US Department of Commerce, at a time when the
US was fully aware of the Iraqi biological warfare programme and
that these exports have been fully documented noting,
in particular, that the US sales included Vollum strain anthrax,
found by the Iraq Survey Group to be the strain of anthrax used in
the Iraqi biological weapons programme, and which, as reported in
The Times of 9th August, originated from a dead cow in Oxfordshire;
calls on the Government to report these sales to the Security
Council in the light of its commitment in the April 2002 Green
Paper,
Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, that
those at every level responsible for any breach of international law
relating to the use of such weapons will be held personally
accountable; and urges the Prime Minister either to lodge the
necessary complaint with the Security Council or change the UK's
stated policy after an appropriate public announcement and
discussion.
See also -
Saddam's germ war plot is traced back to one
Oxford cow
The culture was sent to the United States, which exported samples to
Iraq during Saddam’s war against Iran in the 1980s. Inspectors have
found that this batch of anthrax was the dictator’s choice in his
attempts to create biological weapons.
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