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In fact, we have one particular hope: that in November 2002 we may have an agreement at this 5th review conference of the Convention. But that agreement will not naturally be complete if the United States does not participate, and this issue is therefore one of the issues included in the current dialogue with the United States, with a view to the preparation of the summit between the European Union and the United States which is expected to take place before the end of the Presidency – certainly in June, if not in April, since the date is yet to be decided.
Our argument with the United States is that, not only would the non-participation of the United States in this 5th review conference of the Convention and its new agreement damage the credibility of the whole international effort, but that to have a clear position on the Convention on Biological and Toxin Weapons is also one of the agreed actions which can be carried out jointly by the European Union and the United States in order to implement measures to combat the terrorist threat. Because it is well know that these biological and toxin weapons may be used for criminal purposes by international terrorist organisations.
Therefore, the more committed the whole of international society is to this issue, and the United States in particular, – since it is one of the top producers of biological and toxin weapons – the better. I believe that this is being included in the dialogue we are holding with the United States in the Senior Level Group and in the agreements we want to reach with the United States at the summit between the United States and the European Union, which is going to take place during this six-month period."@en1
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