KOFI Annan, the UN secretary-general (right), is at the centre of a British plan to breathe new life into the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, signed in 1972. The original plan to police the convention through an international protocol was sunk by the US last November.
The Bush administration wouldn’t agree to the protocol because it required every country to list all its biotech facilities capable of producing bioweapons. Nor would it agree to allow surprise visits to these facilities by trained weapons inspectors.
In an effort to revive the convention, the British government this week launched a Green Paper…
