United Nations, June 1 (IANS): Seeing the devastation brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, India has put a spotlight on the threat of terrorists using biological weapons and suggested that the UN help countries deal with the risk. “In the Covid-era, the threat of misuse of biological agents and chemicals as weapons, combined with advances in chemistry and biology has heightened,” A.Amarnath, a counsellor at India’s UN Mission, said on Tuesday at a consultation held by the Security Council panel dealing with terrorists and weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The consultation, he said, could be a forum to see how the panel could “assist members in this area”. The committee headed by Mexico is called the 1540 Committee after the Council’s 2004 resolution to prevent terrorists from developing, acquiring, manufacturing or using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and their means of delivery. Amarnath warned that new and emerging technologies may increase
Seeing the devastation brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, India has put a spotlight on the threat of terrorists using biological weapons and suggested that the UN help countries deal with the risk."In the Covid-era, the threat of misuse of .
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