{"id":12988,"date":"2026-10-20T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/?p=12988"},"modified":"2026-10-20T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:13:46","slug":"italy-at-the-united-nations-strengthening-efforts-to-combat-chemical-and-biological-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dalla_rappresentanza\/2026\/10\/italy-at-the-united-nations-strengthening-efforts-to-combat-chemical-and-biological-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy at the United Nations: Strengthening Efforts to Combat Chemical and Biological Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy addressed <a href=\"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Statement-Italy-Second-Cluster-1st-Committee-UNGA-2026_Counsellor-Poti-19-october.pdf\">Cluster II<\/a> of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, highlighting in particular the challenges posed by new technologies to disarmament and non-proliferation. Italy called for progress in strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention, welcomed cooperation between the OPCW and the Syrian authorities, and condemned violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention in connection with Russia\u2019s aggression against Ukraine. Italy also reaffirmed its support for international non-proliferation instruments and stressed the need to adapt them to emerging threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy addressed Cluster II of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, highlighting in particular the challenges posed by new technologies to disarmament and non-proliferation. Italy called for progress in strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention, welcomed cooperation between the OPCW and the Syrian authorities, and condemned violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention in [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988","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=12988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12993,"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions\/12993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italiarappdisarmo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}