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50th anniversary of biological weapon convention
April 4 , 2025
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- It is the first multilateral disarmament treaty to ban an entire category of the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
- It was opened for signature in April, 1972 and entered into force on 26th March 1975.
- It supplements the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which had prohibited only the use of biological weapons.
- 188 countries including India and four Signatory States (Egypt, Haiti, Somalia, and Syria) are parties of the treaty.
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