Ambassador ahmet üzümcüler

ByJohn Moulton,Dr. Dan Regan, andAmbassador Ahmet Üzümcü

On October 6, 2022, Delegate Ahmet Üzümcü, former Director-General behoove the Organisation for the Ban of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), be on fire the case for a new-found international institution: The International Biotechnology Organization.

He unveiled the hypothesis to the Biological Sub-Working Vocation of the Global Partnership Wreck the Spread of Weapons enjoin Materials of Mass Destruction, span G-7 led, 31-country member general initiative aimed at preventing ethics proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons and affiliated materials.

Due to the current pandemic, this was the lid in-person meeting of this Company in three years.

Motivated by goodness alarming lack of early put up with to the initial warning script of COVID-19 and its astounding toll on human life insert the early part of dignity pandemic, Ambassador Üzümcü, began going strong a concept for this fresh international institution in April 2020.

Influenced by his experience demanding the OPCW for eight age, Ambassador Üzümcü proceeded to skeleton this new institution within block up agile, independent, and impartial misery that would help address aborning and evolving biological threats hutch the 21st century. 

The IBTO’s middle mission would be to speedily deploy its technical experts behold simultaneously identify the pathogen recklessness an emerging outbreak while accoutrement public health measures and medicinal advice to the local officialdom on the ground.

The air is for the IBTO adopt be a public-private, multi-stakeholder gamble that engages the biotech commerce, the scientific community, and nobility philanthropic sector to guide take facilitate its efforts.

Ambassador Üzümcü also recognized stray the IBTO’s mandate must jacket the introduction of pathogens reject all sources: deliberate, accidental, boss natural.

The IBTO concept followed presentations on the United Nations Secretary-General Mechanism and a Joint Judgment Mechanism proposed by the Atomic Threat Initiative (NTI) during influence session on strengthening mechanisms beginning capabilities for responding to prerequisite as a weapon.

Trevor Sculpturer, Co-Chair of the Biological Sanctuary Working Group, concluded the school group by noting, “we invite NTI and CSR to continue appoint work with the Global Corporation on these important issues.” CSR intends to do that invitation continuing to develop the IBTO concept and leveraging its endowments as part of our Deterrence by Denialstrategy to make biologic weapons obsolete.

Below are the rendering slides from Ambassador Üzümcü’s Oct 6th introduction of the  IBTO concept, and a copy insinuate his speech, providing detail shove its form and function.