On September 26, Tashkent hosted a national workshop devoted to strengthening confidence-building measures in Uzbekistan within the framework of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction.

The event, organized by the Committee for Industrial, Radiation and Nuclear Safety under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the United Nations, was attended by domestic and foreign experts, specialists, scientists and students.

At the event, the Chief Specialist of the Committee for Industrial, Radiation and Nuclear Safety, National Coordinator for the Implementation of the BWC Otabek Kasymov, Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Uzbekistan James Roed-Moor, UN Political Affairs Officer Hermann Alex Lampalzer, and others emphasized the importance of improving the country’s biological safety system, strengthening international cooperation and improving the knowledge and skills of participants in this area.

As noted at the event, biosafety has recently become one of the country’s critical issues. After all, the consequences of the widespread spread of the coronavirus pandemic have become a test for the entire world, including Uzbekistan’s population.

Implementing the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On comprehensive measures for the development of biotechnology and improvement of the country’s biological safety system” of November 25, 2020, sets the task of systematically organizing these works.

According to Mr. Otabek Kasymov, biological safety is a set of complexes aimed at ensuring comprehensive technical capabilities for compliance with various regulatory and sanitary-epidemiological requirements for the safe life and work of humans, maximum protection of people, animals, and plants from various biological damage, conservation of biological diversity and environmental protection.

The workshop will continue its work on September 27.

[gallery-19468]

Nasiba Ziyodullayeva, UzA