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Viewing cable 05PARIS3223, BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (BWC) WORK PROGRAM

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05PARIS3223 2005-05-11 16:30 2011-08-24 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Paris 
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111630Z May 05
 
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