Debate goes on over home of biological weapons convention.
The Ad Hoc Group on Biological Weapons Convention concluded its four-week long 20th session here in Geneva. Speaking on the occasion, Tibor Toth, ambassador and chairman of the Ad Hoc Group of the States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention, said that summer holiday mood affected the session's productivity and less work was done. The main problems envisaged by Toth were narrowing down of numbers and scope of the Convention. However he was happy with progress made in investigations concerning the weapons and cooperation among state members. Some critical issues like compliance measures and further compromises between industrialized countries and developing countries remain to be sorted out, added Toth.