BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (BWC) WORK PROGRAM

UNCLAS PARIS 003223 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PARM PREL SUBJECT: BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (BWC) WORK PROGRAM MEETINGS ON CODES OF CONDUCT: FRENCH RESPONSE REF: SECSTATE 81766 This message is sensitive but unclassified. Poloff delivered reftel demarche and associated non-paper to Gabriel Bernier, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Desk Officer at the MFA's Nonproliferation Section on May 9. In a follow-up conversation on May 10, Bernier said that he did not foresee any difficulties between France and the U.S. with regard to the BWC experts meeting in June. He said that the French and American teams have good rapport and closely related views on the direction of the BWC. WOLFF