Geneva/Information Office/08 November 2016/ The State of Qatar has affirmed fulfill obligations as a state party to the Convention on "Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Biological and Toxin Weapons and on their destruction", as one of the first signatories of the Convention.
This came in Qatar's speech delivered HE Major General Staff (Pilot) Nasser Mohammed Al-Ali, Chairman of the Qatari National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons (NCPW), at the 8th Review Conference of the States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention on "Prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of biological weapons, these weapons" being held in Geneva from 7 to 25 November.
HE Al-Ali noted the State of Qatar does not possess or produce any arming biological program, as it did not have any research activity to develop, store or possess any biological or toxin factors .. He pointed out that the State of Qatar issued an instrument of ratification of the Convention on the development, production and stockpiling of biological weapons ban on 1 March 1975 , and was ratified by the Emiri decree No. (32) of 2001. Qatar was keen to join the rest of the disarmament treaties that enhance international peace and security.
He added that the State of Qatar had established the National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons (NCPW), under the Cabinet Resolution No. (26) of 2004,  a permanent body entrusted with the implementation of international conventions on disarmament, including weapons of mass destruction, as well as the Biological Weapons Convention.