The process of revealing the shortcomings of the legal aspects of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons (2011 to 2023)
Subject Areas :Robab Ramezanur 1 , maryam moradi 2 , mohsen dianat 3
1 - Ph.D. Student, Department of International Law, Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qeshm Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Islamic Azad University, Qeshm International Branch
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: biological weapon, convention, bioterrorism, security. international system,
Abstract :
In the last two centuries, the issue of the threat of biological weapons has become very important.The 1972 Convention on Biological Weapons,which is the result of the continuation and completion of the provisions of the 1925 Geneva Protocol on the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating and Poisonous Gases and Biological Warfare Methods,objectified the first unlimited international disarmament process.However,this convention has lost a significant amount of its power until today,and countries and even some non-governmental forces have used biological weapons indiscriminately, which is a clear violation of this obligation and international agreement.are This research was carried out by analytical-descriptive method with the aim of investigating the shortcomings of the mentioned convention and collected the necessary information from books and articles.Therefore, the question arises as follows:What are the most important legal shortcomings of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons? The hypothesis of the work carried out by investigating modern bioterrorism states that the most important shortcoming of this convention is the lack of verification,the lack of power to confront world powers such as the United States,the political definition of terrorism and biological terror,the lack of binding powerand the oldness of the statute it is
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