We can also take note of continuing and active discussions 
of limitations on chemical warfare. 
.o agreements already in existence, a particularly 
important example is the Biological Weapons Convention. 
In this connection, I would like to draw the attention of 
v,.ie Committee to some statements made in December 197^, during 
the ratification process of the BW Convention in my country. 
The Foreign Relations Committee of the D.S. Senate inquired 
whether the Biological Weapons Convention would prohibit future 
types of biological warfare which might employ techniques beyond 
the current "state of the art". The Executive Branch responded 
that : 
"The Biological Weapons Convention would prohibit any 
future type of warfare which employed biological agents 
or toxins, regardless of when the agent was first 
developed or discovered. This also applies to weapons, 
equipment and means of delivery. In other words, the 
Convention prohibits not only existing means of biologi- 
cal and toxin warfare but also any that might come into 
existence in the future." 
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