DISC+EGYPT

__**Background**__ When wars start, there are few things a country can’t do, or are asked not to do. The limits, more or less, are not to use weapons of mass destruction, which can kill thousands at a time and affect a country for years after. Nuclear weapons are the most common WMD, using intense explosives to destroy an area. But there are also chemical and biological weapons, which don’t use explosives. Chemical weapons use chemicals to kill people, such as chlorine or Sarin gas. There are seven different classes for chemical weapons: nerve, asphyxiant or blood, vesicant or blister, chocking or pulumonary, lchyrumatory, incapacitating, amd cytotxic classes. Biological weapons use different bacteria or viruses. They come in three main forms, including food or water poisoning, microorganism or toxin use, and contaminated cloth. Both biological and chemical weapons can kill people, contaminate water, destroy crops, and do many other things that would hurt a country. Because of this, they are not used very often. In WWI, Germany used chlorine to kill their enemies, and in 1995, Aum Shinriko used sarin gas to kill 12 people on a subway. In the 19th century, thousands of Native Americans were killed when colonists gave them blankets infected with small pox. It was not until recently that chemical and biological weapons were deemed inappropriate and banned in war. __** UN Involvement **__ In 1972, the United Nations held a Chemical Weapons Convention, which wanted to stop the making, distributing, and stock-pilling of biological and chemical weapons. They have been mostly successful, though approximately 48 countries have refused to sign or have not been ratified. The UN feels especially strong strongly about this issue, and has been checking up on countries who have already signed the treaty. They have also set up a punishment system for countries ignoring the treaty. Any government leaders or weapons experts from these countries trying to create biological or chemical weapons will be faced with prosecution. Because of this, countries that already had these weapons are considering destroying them. However, the cost of destroying chemical and biological weapons in the United States and Russia alone would be over five billion dollars. __WHO__ and __the Food and Agriculture Agenc__y are both working with __BWC__ to take care of animals and environments harmed by biological and chemical weapons. **__Countries policy__** While America has made comments to the contrary, Egypt has never had, created, or stockpiled biological weapons. It is many countries beliefs that we created a biological weapons research program in the 1960’s and have the ability to commit biological warfare, but there is no proof aside from other countries speculations. We have never researched the use of the plague, botulism toxin, the encephalitis virus, anthrax, rift valley fever, mycotoxicosis, or any other disease we are believed to have studied. We will admit to creating and using chemical weapons, which we did in the 1960’s to Yemeni royalists. We still have a research program and have not destroyed our chemical weapons. While Egypt has chemical weapons, and has not signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, we do not want to use our weapons to start wars or set unexpected attacks on other countries. We will only ever use our chemical weapons as a defense, after another country has attacked us first. Our supply of weapons is large, but we have few new, extremely dangerous weapons. We used mustard gas against Yemeni royalist troops, as well as phosgene. We also researched the production of VX nerve gas and sarin, as well as the use of these weapons in missiles and shells. We have supplied Syria and Iraq with mustard gas, phosgene, and information on other weapons. Our supplies are small, and our research is relatively old. We have no extensively new things in the industry of chemical weapons, and do not have any biological weapons to speak of. We will only consider using what we have in a major situation, and only as a defensive tactic. __** Solution **__ Egypt’s solution is to modify all chemical and biological weapon treaties so that they can never be used in a war unless direct permission is given by the U.N. The modifications will include allowing all countries with the money or recourses to study, produce, stockpile, test, and trade biological and chemical weapons. Any countries that brake the terms of the treaty and use biological or chemical weapons before it is necessary and without derect permission of the United Nations shall have all of their BCW taken away, and will have to give all the money put into the creation of those weapons towards the fixing of the country they attacked, until the U.N. sees that the other country is back to their original state, for a time period not exceeding fifteen years. Egypt feels that doing this encourages countries to find a means to defend their selves without being tempted to set up surprise attacks due to the repercussions.