{"id":12610,"date":"2026-08-17T13:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/?p=12610"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:11:12","slug":"geneva-hosts-the-ninth-session-of-the-working-group-on-strengthening-the-biological-weapons-convention-bwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dalla_rappresentanza\/2026\/08\/geneva-hosts-the-ninth-session-of-the-working-group-on-strengthening-the-biological-weapons-convention-bwc\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva hosts the ninth session of the Working Group on strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"110\" data-end=\"580\">From 17 to 21 August, Geneva will host the ninth session of the Working Group on strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), established in 2022 during the Ninth Review Conference, chaired by Ambassador Leonardo Bencini. Under the chairmanship of Brazilian Ambassador Frederico S. Duque Estrada Meyer, the session will focus on key issues related to identifying, examining and developing effective measures to strengthen the Convention in all its aspects.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"582\" data-end=\"1021\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The meeting is of strategic importance as it is the penultimate session before the conclusion of the Working Group\u2019s mandate, with measures to be adopted for submission to the Tenth Review Conference in 2027. At this crucial stage, the highest level of cooperation among all stakeholders is essential. Italy remains actively engaged in the negotiating process, with the aim of fostering concrete progress towards achieving broad consensus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From 17 to 21 August, Geneva will host the ninth session of the Working Group on strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), established in 2022 during the Ninth Review Conference, chaired by Ambassador Leonardo Bencini. Under the chairmanship of Brazilian Ambassador Frederico S. Duque Estrada Meyer, the session will focus on key issues related to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12611,"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12610\/revisions\/12611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}