5th Meeting, 9th Session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the BWC

Good morning, everybody.
Excellencies, distinguished delegates.
Welcome back to the fifth meeting of the ninth session of the working group on strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention.
As with our previous meetings, this is a public meeting being held in an in person format in accordance with the regular practice under the convention.
It's also being broadcast live on UN webTV.
Dear colleagues, Before we start our formal business, I would like to note that today, 19th of August is World Humanitarian Day.
To mark this commemoration, we will observe a minute of silence at the beginning of our afternoon meeting.
In addition, the United Nations Office at Geneva will be hosting a ceremony outside this conference room in Salle de Paper Du at 4:00 P.M.
Today for 1 hour.
We have been requested to refrain from exiting this room into the Sal de Paper die during this time.
Dear colleagues, yesterday evening, the Secretariat circulated another update version of the draft final report, which has been issued as document BWC slash wg slash slash Rp dot or slashv dot three dated 18th of August.
It was sent to all delegations yesterday by email and printed copies are available in the room.
I imagine that you all read this last night or before breakfast this morning.
This rev three version incorporates the text that we managed to turn green yesterday.
Plus the textual proposals that were made by delegations.
This version will be the one on which we work today, in which the Secretariat will show on the screen.
As necessary, further updated versions will be produced during the course of this week so that delegations always have the latest text available to facilitate our work.
For your information, we had 90% 0.2 0.2.
Yeah.
That's what we had and with our meeting Monday and Tuesday, we were able to advance 2%, which is acceptable.
What do we do now? A I think that we're going to move to small groups because this, this planar is very beautiful, but it's very hard to work.
I cannot even see people in the back.
We're going to have one group with cluster one.
We have cluster two, cluster three, cluster four, and cluster five.
Davi and Leonard, they will approach some delegations if they want to be facilitators, and then six and seven we're not discussing now.
Closer six, consensus Closer seven MSP.
I will adjourn the meeting now and we're going to check with some delegations if they want to be facilitators, and of course, other delegations who want to be in the room, they are more than welcome.
The meeting is adjourned.
It's.
It's suspended.
We have also.
Just when some people are asking which clusters are those? I will tell you the secret.
Cluster one would be UCM, annex one, paragraph six, seven, seven Bs, and eight, annex two, OP, paragraph two, paragraph two A, and paragraph two B.
That's cluster one.
Cluster two, CBMs, annex one, paragraph 14.
Cluster three, verification, Annex one, paragraph 16, 17, 18, 18 A, 18 B, 18 C, 18 D, 21.
And 22.
Cluster four, ICA, TF, annex two, Appendix two, paragraph in Appendix three, paragraph ten, ten A, B, B, Bs.
Cluster five, science and technology, annex three, Appendix one, paragraph three B, paragraph four, paragraph six, paragraph nine, paragraph 14, paragraph 25, paragraph 26, paragraph 27, paragraph 29, paragraph 39, Appendix two, Rule 3.2.
Those are the clusters.
We approach some delegations to be facilitators, and you have all the morning to produce something and come to me in the afternoon without the solutions.
Thank you.