Submitted on Sunday 29th March 2020
Rejected on Monday 18th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Learn from COVID-19: abolish biological weapons
Government and Parliament rightly support international cooperation over present and potential pandemics. They should now use the UK's position in the United Nations by answering the call of the Secretary-General, on 26 March 2020, to strengthen and universalise the Biological Weapons Convention.
COVID-19 warns us of the global disaster that biological warfare (using bacteria, viruses, fungi or other deadly organisms) would unleash. UN Secretary-General Guterres says: 'Scientific advances are reducing technical barriers which ... limited the potential of biological weapons.' Now more than ever, the public will welcome a bold initiative to revitalise the Biological Weapons Convention, making it – at long last – the instrument for securing permanent abolition of all biological weapons.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do to strengthen and universalise the treaty.
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