BIO-SECURITY TRAINING RUNS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Economic Cooperation of Mongolia and the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) ran on November 12-13 a seminar-training on national implementation of the international Biological Weapons Convention. As known, this Convention aims to unite nations against the threat of biological and chemical weapons, and the UN provides expertise and technical assistance and supports trainings of cadres for the nationwide implementation of the Convention. This seminar has been of importance in terms of adopting the recommendations on reflecting the “Bio-Security” issues into the domestic regulations. As for Mongolia, there are 10 associated laws. Assessments and conclusions on the domestic regulations were made by the international R&E Centre “VERTIC” during the previous seminar held in October. Mongolia joined the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972 and observes duty to enact and pursue the domestic regulations in harmony with the international principles.