Brussels, 27/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - At the 24th session, in Geneva on 26 July, of the special group of contracting States to the 1972 Convention on the Ban on Biological Weapons and following the American rejection of a protocol aimed at introducing a monitoring mechanism on the implementation of the Convention, the representative of the Belgian Presidency made the following statement on behalf of the European Union (unofficial translation):
"The EU wants to reiterate its fundamental...