Article V: Consultative Process BWC Home About BWC RevCon Article V: Consultative Process U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament Disarming Disinformation National Contact Point HomeBiological Weapons Convention...BWC Article V: Formal Consultative Process hide BWC Article V: Formal Consultative Process Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation Under the BWC’s Article V, States Parties undertake to consult one another and cooperate in solving any problems which may arise in relation to the objective or application of the BWC. As part of this, any States Party can request a formal consultative meeting of States Parties to consider any problems and suggest ways and means for further clarifying matters considered ambiguous or unresolved. Requests for convening a consultative meeting are addressed to the BWC’s three Depositaries (the United States, United Kingdom, and Russian Federation), who inform States Parties of the request and convene within 30 days an informal meeting of States Parties to discuss the arrangements for the formal consultative meeting, which is convened within 60 days of receipt of the request. Statements Opening Statement to the Article V Consultative Meeting Under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention [155 KB] Additional Statement to the Article V Consultative Meeting Under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention [108 KB] Response by the U.S.A. to the request by the Russian Federation for a BWC Article V Consultative Meeting [163 KB] Tags Biological Weapons Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
